This mod has no reliance on that file.

After reading a few pages of posts, I recommend setting the default installation path to ././backups and adding instructions to create that directory and CHMOD it 777.

That will ease things up a bit for those who are less technically inclined.

Excellent mod. One suggestion: Allow a config option for deleting old files that are 'X backups old'. This would allow for limitation of disk space usage.

I am new to vBulletin, so please forgive my ignorance, but I am learning. Are you saying we should not ADD a Scheduled Task? If that is the case, then where should I adjust the cron timing to initiate the backups?

Just FYI, make sure that open_basedir is disabled or it will not work. ;)

I already have the old version of this installed. Now, I just had to overwrite the old ones.
Worked fine for me. Thanks heaps, Paul. This mod is a savior.

Thanks, Paul!! I couldn't SSH into the server today (my dev install which I haven't used for ages), so this mod came in handy! After I figured out where to run it manually, worked like a charm.

One thing though... The first time I ran it I had it set to backup individual tables, but I then set it to single-file backup. I'm looking in the directory and don't see a single-file that I can identify as the complete backup.

Am I missing something? (I re-ran it manually, so is there a chance that since nothing was really changed since the piece-meal backup, it didn't bother running again?)

Thx.

It will always do a backup if you run it.

Not sure I understand the rest of the question, are you saying you couldnt see the created file ?

Where were you looking ?

I was looking in the same backup folder that I found the individual backup files (before I configured it to backup to a single file). I don't see the new single-file backup, only the multiple smaller files from my first backup job.

Apart from the configurable prefix, what should the single-file backup be named? <prefix>-date.sql?

Im not sure you are looking in the correct place - single files will go in the root of the configured backup folder - multiple file backups create an extra folder that single file backups dont.

Ah, maybe I configured it incorrectly. All the single files went into the /backups directory specified in on the admincp config page. I'll double check when I get back in there.

Thx!