I know that its not a permission issue now. I can go to my admin panel and do a database backup manually and it can write an sql to that folder. If I try it with this mod with the paths the same it doesnt work.

Oddly when the backup task runs javascript (vbulletin_menu.js) is stripped from all the forum pages and as a result javascript of any kind doesn't work anymore. I've narrowed down the problem to this modification - it doesnt occur with any other.

Any idea's what's happening and how to fix it? What i have to do now when this happens is either disable & enable plugin hooks or use a template cache plugin that refreshes the template cache. When i do either of these things javascript works properly again.

Try turning off the auto closing of the forum during backups.

Thanks for the fast reply.

I edited the file. Hopefully tomorrow morning when it runs it won't break JS again.

I have to ask this... Paul, why do you need 3 files to do what one file can do alone? I have been using a single file backup since 3.5.4 and it has always worked great and still does in 3.7.0. I'm just curious is all. ;)

You'd have to ask Trigunflame that question.

Paul, you're telling me you don't know? As good a coder as you are, you could do it all in one file.

dose It support utf-8 encoding?

I see no reason to change it.

I figured that would be the answer. ;)