Whoohoo!!! i got it. lol.

where do you guys recomend that i put the backup file?

should i put it in a file at the same level (pardon my teminology) as the public_html file?
in the public_html file?
in a folder in the public_html file?

where would it be most secure?

i even added revens bit of code to get it in a zip file. :cool:
thanks paul, thanks reven :)
i would love to add revens coding to save it on an outside ftp, if i could get some help figuring out the filepaths. i read through this mod atleast three times but all the different filepath discriptions has got me all scared. :( lol

Always save backups outside of the public_html, you don't want people to be able to access them.

gotcha ;) you da man
i thought i had marked this mod installed ... but i didnt. got it now. :) thanks again

i went back a couple of pages to see if this was addressed but we run under windows server 2003 and apache/php. When I point the directory to the C: drive it backs up fine but we have a share drive that is run by our hosting company which we currently use to do backups since its off the server completly. But there is a permission issue writing the file there (it gives a permission error). im guessing apache/php has a user account which needs access but have no idea what it is.... was wondering if anybody could help.

and the section question.... what we really want is a single file that is created and it is overwritten every night. Is there anyway to have a single file that just gets overwritten or updated every night? (IE if i take out the date part would that do it).

I would imagine that if you did a default install of apache on W2000 then it's running under the system account so will not be able to access shared drives - you would need to create a dedicated user account, change the service to use that account, and go from there.

yesterday my database Was CRASHED !! Thanks this mod that i had a backup :)

thanks again Paul M

woOT. Test backup worked flawlessly. Hopefully we'll see tonight a fresh backup.
I think that many of these problems are based on a bad path if one is trying to place the backup folder outside of public_html.

@Paul

Can you please help me with the filename.
I really need multiple backups but I don't want each backup in its own folder instead I would like to have one folder per day containing multiple backup files.

Help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks

StarBuG

This doesn't seem to do anything. I went to scheduled tasks to manually run the job, and it just cleared the box and said "Database Backup" at the top.

I shelled in and went to the location I selected it to store at... no file.

Oops, ok, it seems you can't get out of your forum root directory. I select /dir2 which is from my hard drive root, and it put it in my forum root (my forum is still a few subdirs deep below dir2).

Sorry, but I just don't do customised versions of any of my mods (unless you want to pay for my time of course) - it simply would not be practical, as so many people want little things changing here and there. It's enough to just keep up with supporting them as they are.

In the case of this mod, any changes would also take a little longer as I didn't write the original code, so I have to familiarise myself with how it works.