I don't think you can set a vb cron to run every 4 hours.

What is the point of this if I can backup my db in phpmyadmin?? or in terminal??

1. it's more convenient/easier

2. it's automated

Ok I know this may be a lame question but I am new to this so here it goes...

I am trying to make the back up folder but I dont want it to be seen by the public... where in the root do i put it so the public cant see it. are all the forum folders able to be see by the public?

my root is
sitename/

all those folders after the / are able to be seen correct?

sorry for the questions but I am just new to this

thanks for the help

If you can't see the point then you don't need to worry about using it .....

I asked because I didn't understand what this was alright?..now I understand and it makes sense on what it does..maybe with a little more info I would of understood everything from the beginning.

I have a question.. is there ANY way of having this SAVE my db+tables into one .sql file and NOT just the tables themselves??

and is it ok if I made a .htaccess file with "deny from all" inside the path/to/backup path?

1. Just set the combine setting to 1

2. Yep, that should stop anyone accessing it.

Thank you :), working nice!

Hello, I am a new guy and this is really great. The only problem is that I can only get it set up right to a folder below my forum. I have been up and down this thread trying everything but I can't seem to get it set up right. I am in shared hosting and I have read to check in phpinfo and all I can find is /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini I am trying to go off my root folder to admin/backups. Any suggestions? I guess maybe I'm getting too old for this.:)