I have a db question in regards to this mod and wonder if someone could answer it in PM?

It never finishes for me, it always get stuck and never fully completes.. how come?

Its not really possible for me to know the answer to that.

this script stops after 30 seconds.

Perhaps you are running in safe mode ?

thanks alot Paul M for your great mods,,

1. How does it work ? snapshots please?
My database experiences heavy load,
2.so does this hack backup the database in batches for example and then compliled in one file or even each table in one file ?
3. Does it work with very large databases ?
4. Does it le me choose the folder and file name ?

You can choose to have all your tables saved separately or one combined file..
You choose the destination of the saved file..
It crashes 25% of the time when I'm running it on my forum (the complete db is about 400mb)..

If it crashes 25% of the time then you have a local issue. My db file is over 1GB and it never crashes.

Yes, i am running in safe mod. My hosting provider cant disable safe mod.

Then you are screwed, there is no way to overide the 30 second timeout in safe mode.