The only time this modification can actually change anything on a site is if you use the 'shutdown' option to close your forum during a backup, in theory if the save of the options failed for some bizarre reason then the options in the datastore could get corrupted (simply editing an option would rebuild them I think).

Other than that, this has no capability to change anything, it's a "read only" modification.

Given that the basic code (written by Trigunflame) has been in use for over two years without any other such reports, I'm inclined to conclude that something else caused your issue. If you have evidence otherwise then please feel free to contact me.

(JFYI, This runs a backup on my site every night, and has done since the day 3.6 was released. I do not use the shutdown option.)

I don't understand why the generated backup file is 53 megs when the file if I do a backup through SSH is 130 megs.

It is not saving your whole database, some of your tables are too large for it.
Times out incompleted,the forum stays locked.Locking and unlocking is the only way to start functioning again.
I installed it but cannot use it . It stops around 10 MB. (There is a large table which stops it.)
Tried to save the result to the server,same result.

I only have problems if the PHP Memory Limit is left at default.
I have to raise it to about 100mb then it runs fine, otherwise i get an error about the memory being exausted.

For reference, our server PHP limit is 32MB, and SQL packet Size is 16MB.

Our largest table (post) is about 550MB, and it backs up fine.

I can confirm this on my site. Header links all farked-up. When I remove the product, it's back to normal. Uninstalled!!!!

1. What does "Header links all farked-up" mean exactly ?

2. As per previous posts, did you use the 'shutdown' option.

my PHP is set to 64 and the SQL also set to 16. It seems to end processing the post column.


Server Type Linux
Safe Mode
Web Server Apache v2.2.3
PHP 5.1.6
PHP Max Post Size 8.00 MB
PHP Maximum Upload Size 16.00 MB
PHP Memory Limit 64.00 MB
MySQL Version 5.0.27
MySQL Packet Size 16.00 MB

Any ideas?

Turn off safe mode, I have a feeling that you cannot override the default php timeout in safemode, so the script is possibly timing out.

1. Meaning the links I have in the header (moved from the navbar, custom skin) were all messed-up. The Quick Links turned into a link for the buddy list, the login link no longer worked (it re-directed you to the forum index), the Mark forums read link suddenly appeared in the header and the New post link directed you to the style id of the skin you were using. Very odd stuff.

2. Yes