I believe it should work fine after you upgrade.

I installed this... For some reason, I can't get the directory right. I have no idea about relative directories... I stuck a folder named "Backups" in the Includes folder, CHMODded it to 777, and then pointed it to any number of locations... ../backups/, /public_html/forums/includes/backups/, ... Not sure what to do at this point...

Well, to start with you want your backup folder ABOVE the html root. The location you have it at now - "/public_html/forums/includes/backups/" - anyone could access that folder and download your database. And then guess what, all of your data no belongs to someone else.

The backup folder should be somewhere like - account_name/backups/public_html/forums

Get the path fixed before you get the script running.

Hi Paul,

I have been using this great script for a while now. I recently added a function in the cron to delete all backups that are 3 days or older when it performs a backup, because I had to constantly manually delete old files.

I placed it right after

echo $mysqlBackup->STATUS;

What I'd like to know is how to determine a successful status from the script. In case of failure I don't want to run the delete. Something like
if($status == 'success')
{
// my stuff here
}

Thanks

It should contain 'The Backup was completed successfully.'

You can change that (about line 27) in the mysqlbackup.php file if you wish.

I just can't get the directory right... I set up a folder in the server's root directory, and tried setting the dump path to just /(foldername)/. Then I tried (server username)/(foldername)/... How can I set this right? :(

Use a relative path, like ../../foldername

And what would the relative path be when the folder is in the server root? I honestly don't know how to use relative paths.

No idea, that depends on your server setup. Google is your friend, lookup reletive paths.

hi Paul is there away so i can make this run twice a day like say 10am and 10pm