Thank you, work on vB4.0.1 ;)

Compressed to .gz, it's possible ?

or

Compressed to .gz in the forder (but one file, not individual files)

If you modify the code then I expect it would be possible.

this is not where I wanted to come, but thank you ^^

Paul; Any chance of you designing this mod with an option to compress the sql files with gzip to save some server space?

He said if you edit files it is possible....Hopefully he'll do that also.

Kay, so I figured it out, and installed it, and it's working, I run the Cron Job manually to test if it works, and it does, at the end I get this:

After it's completely figured, then I go to my FTP, and the folder I set, and boom, blank, nothing there. What's the problem?

You are looking in the wrong place - if its completed than its written the data to the path you specified.

I've installed this successfully but I want to make sure that what I did was correct.

There was one file saved as "Forum-February-14-Full-Backup.sql". Is that all I need? Is the date method I used sufficient? I basically only want to save one year's worth of files before it starts to overwrite them.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of selecting the first option? (To save as one file)
Is it safe to install to "../../backups"?

As far as the database is concerned, yes, thats all you need.

As to one file or multiple files, it depends - its easier to restore one table if you have seperate files. If you need to restore the whole database, one file is easier (but in DOS its also easy to join all the single files into one big file anyway).

I dont quite understand your last question.

how do you restore a backup?
all I have ever used is mysqldumper.
thanks