This is causing huge problems when it backs up my 40mb (gzipped - 250mb non) database. It causes the whole vps to lock-up and the server needs restarting.

Any ideas about this?

If you are using vB 3.5.0, just use the included shell script and add it to the cron. I just found out about that yesterday and it works nicely :)

Can you explain...........Please

Hey, where is the script supposed to be uploaded to? I can't find any info or instructions on it ... does it need to be outside the main site? permissions set a certain way?

I just uploaded mine to my home directory. You need to open it in like wordpad or something and edit the path to your vBulletin config file.

Im also dying to get this working on my forum.

Where is this "included shell script" located? As others were asking.

It's in vB's do_not_upload folder.

The backup it creates is not of much use if the server go down or breaks, The whole great part of "VBulletin Database Backup Pro" was I have mine being ftp'd off to a remote site nightly as well as storing locally so no matter what happened My database was safe, at the moment I am having to do it manually but we all know slackness takes over and it doenst get done and that of course if when you have a failure. :(

Thanks for this works great.....I ran the task and get this message, "failover initiated, but backup was done successfully"

I check the directory of the backup and its there........any ideas as to why I get this message?

I'd really like to see some attention on a full port over to 3.5G. This is one of the most important add-ons I can think of.