Okay I have installed everything in the proper folders. I click run and get:
Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.7

An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

I created a folder named backups? What else should I do and how do I CHMod a folder to 777?

I changed all the 0666 to 0777 and now when I run it I get this:

Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.7

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/mysqlbackup.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/cron/cronbackup.php on line 19

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/darkhors/public_html/forum/includes/mysqlbackup.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/darkhors/public_html/forum/includes/cron/cronbackup.php on line 19

Thanks.

Thanks for this important MOD. However, I'm getting the same error: The situation is as follows:

1. I didn't edit anything in mysqlbackupconfig.php

2. Since the relative path for the backup files is '../../backups/', I created a 'backups' folder in forum root and chmod to '777'

What am I missing here? Thanks for your help.

Is there any way to have it automatically compress the backed up database? The backup can be quite large.

try ./backups/ if your backup folder is in the forum root, or, ../forum/backups/

I had to play with mine for a bit. You guys get this error when the config file can't find the backups folder.

I put mine outside the forum root, and outside the public html root so that it's more protected. use the actual server path to the folder if you want to do it that way.

Probably open_basdir protection.

Nope, this has no such facility.

How can I overcome this challenge?

Read this, and speak to your host.

Thank you. Will do.