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I'm not sure I understand. So what IS the correct path? :o

*poof* ;)

What's the importance of the postindex table -- is it a necessity to have in a backup or can it be skipped, as I notice my forum hangs and sometimes errors leaving the forum offline when the postindex table is being processed.

It's part of the vb search system, you don't need to back it up as you can rebuild it from within the ACP.

I just realized that I'd yet to switch to fulltext searching - I thought I did, so that cut my backup size down.

Thanks Paul, I'll remember that.

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Switching to full text searching cuts the backup size down? I would have thought it would be the other way 'round...

Nope, indexes are never backed up.

Using FT searching means you can forget the word and postindex tables (or just empty them).

Ok, trying it (because needed) for the second time.

Inside my destination backup directory, after running the task manually, a dir is created.

That dir is Y-m-d format, but the task stoped and no SQL is generated.

Error: An error occurred during the MySQL backup. Details (Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.)

The dir is correct set, but why not the sql?

Thanks.

That usually means:

1. you haven't set the backup directory to be wirteable, OR more likely

2. you haven't correctly specified the path to the directory: note that this is the "physical" path on your server, not the URL - read previous posts in this thread by Paul M for specific instructions

well; here is what I get.....

and another 4 times an equivalent error

whatever i fill in the backup dir, the error remains the same....

is there something wrong with the server setup?