installed, and running perfectly.

i do have one question though - if you're backing up your db to a directory on your web server, and you CHMOD it to 777, what's stopping someone (assuming they find out what dir it is) from 'stealing' all of your data?

you should NEVER backup to a dir in your webroot. go one level up.

That, and if i recall, you need only chmod your directory to 755, and if you should choose to leave your backups to a directory in webroot, and not one directory above. You should ALWAYS password protect the directory. .htaccess is secure, easy and simple to do.

if you're running a windows server, well then you're outta luck. :p Ok not really. :)

Trigunflame, do you remember the change that you did for me? It stopped backing up for a while now. In fact it backed up only for one week...

I'm getting this too - I know its succeeding, but what would be causing it to be unable to use MySQLDump?

In my case, mysqldump is accessible from everywhere - but I get an error in apache sh: line 1: /mysqldump: No such file or directory each time it runs, even when I've explicitl mapped the path.

Never mind - just read the bit about safemode blocking it.

:(

I guess phpdump is it. I'm not turning off safemode. :)

Euh, It doesn't work :(.
I don't receive an error, but the file is not in the folder I wrote in the config file :s

Trying to learn and install this, done everything except when task is run manually get this error;

An error occured during the MySQL backup. Details (Could not open Destination SQL file for writing. (/httpdocs/forum/backups/06_04_05.sql))

Directory is / - has all web files on it - cant add a directory
/forum where forum is right now
/forum/backups where i have backups file

So the path is - $backup['DUMP_PATH' = '/forum/backups';

Is this the right path to use? Confusing to newbie!

Added full path and it works great - off to click 'install"

Trying to backup the database after a faulty mod install, but I receive the following error:

You have an error in your sql syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MSQL version for the right syntax to use near 'c4dportal < 1.sql' at line one.

I've emptied the c4dportal database and tried using the mysql command to restore the database.