Hi there. Thanks for this useful tool. I have one inpt question on the permissions for the folder that this is writing the back up to, in terms of read and write and execute etc.

There are settings for owner, groups, public etc. What is the best way to lock this down so that the system can run the cron job successfully but also so that we can keep other's eyes out of there?

Also can you perhaps give us a screen shot that will show us a typical cron set up for a once a day or once a week backup?

thanks a lot :)

Hi Paul M,
I used :
We I try to run in from the ACP cron, I get this message:
What's a problem ?

thanks,,

That suggests that cronbackup.php is not in the includes/cron/ folder.

What does this mean?

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 2

Uhmm nvm mate my bad... i imported txt file instead xml.... sorry addon works great thanks allot for it!

PS. getting this error when backuping:

Database Backup
An error occured during the MySQL backup. Details (Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.)

That means you don't have permission to create the backup file. You need to sort out your write permissions.

Great tool. Thanks so much. :)

I upgraded to PHP 5.2.5 yesterday, and the forum didn't re-open after the backup last night. Any idea why that might happen?

Nope, no idea at all.

Thanks Paul. Hopefully it was just a fluke.