My backup directory is empty this AM. So, obviously nothing was backed up.

What could be wrong?

Thanks.

First of all, turn safe mode off.

Then run it manually to see what happens.

Isn't safe mode off a security issue?

Secondly, how can I put safe mode off for my forums but leave it on for my other sites. Which I believe need safe mode on if I'm not mistaken.

Thanks.

Its not really a security risk, Safe Mode is just a nuisance that stops things working, it doesnt even exist in PHP 6.

I cannot help you with your own server set-up, contact your host.

I got this when I tried to run manually:

Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.8
An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

Is this the result of safe mode?

Thanks!

Quite possibly - or your backup path could be wrong, or the folder permissions wrong, or some other reason. All the message means is apache does not have permission to write the file, you need to investigate why.

Just tried to run manually.

I have Safe Mode Off
The backup folder is named backups and is set to 777
And, I'm quite sure the path is correct

and I still get the error. :confused:

Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.8
An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

Here's my path:

$backup['DUMP_PATH'] = 'home/xxxxx/public_html/dumontnjforum.com/forums/backups/'; // Path to backups folder, must have a trailing slash, folder must be writable.

first of all thanks Paul i just upgraded to the new one worked first time :)

why not put your "backups" folder in home/xxxxx/ and change the path to that and see if that works and change the path to

$backup['DUMP_PATH'] = 'home/xxxxx/backups/';

Same story didn't work. :(:mad:

I just noticed that I have 2 php.ini files.

Could this be causing the problem?

One is in public_html and the other is in forum root.