That depends on the shutdown setting.

So what your telling me is I can set it so it will not shut down the forum at all and still perform the backup with no problem? Also will it delete the old backup file once the new one is created?

Yes. That's how I run it.

No (unless the backup file name is the same).

ok thank you for your help

Not Installed Paul...no working, sorry

If installed like it says in the readme and when i try and run the task it says

but i dont understand why its saying it cant open the sql file, I dont want it to open it I want it to make 1 and save all the tables there :S

Iv set it to save to /home/(username)/backup which is chmoded to 777

Can anyone help?

1. That error means it isn't able to open a new file to write the backup. Since you've already said that the current backup directory is write-enabled, I'd assume it can't find the directory you've specified.

2. See if it will work under the forum directory - it may be balking at a configuration above the forum root.

I fixed it! Turns out it didnt work because I forgot the / at the begining on the file path :P Thanks djbaxtor

can this script be set to do multiple back ups a day?

im looking at vb scheduled task and I am trying to figure out how to set my backup to do a backup every 4 hours but I can't figure it out. any help would be great. Thanks