You probably have open_basedir restrictions in effect - this is common on plesk based servers.

Just wanted to know is this work with vbulletin 3.8 RC2 ?

Thank you Paul.

But... I am successfully able to use the vBulletin database backup to a file on the server...
the file pathname is "./dbbackup/filename", and this works.

Obviously it is being stored in a folder under the httpdocs folder, called dbbackup.

So this does work, and we have made no changes to the server configuration.

Does this make sense ?

Yes - all the (valid) options you tried were for folders outside of httpdocs - which is restricted by open_basdir on plesk servers.

Storing backups inside the httpdocs folder is a very bad idea as anyone can access them.

is this compatible with the new 3.8?

There is a 3.8 version.

Thanks!! Ssaw that and uploaded it!! Great Mod! :)

Thank you Paul M. Installed

Paul,

If this is installed and running perfectly in 3.7.4, would you expect any issues when upgrading to 3.8? I realize you have a 3.8 version but I hate to go through the upgrade/config hassles if this version should suffice.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tom

very nice.......