do we get email notification for failed & successful backup?

No.

what should be the permission for the backup folder?
And can it be outside of the "public_html" folder?

EDIT:
(going to kind of answer myself a little bit...)
1) The backup folder can be placed outside the "public_html" folder
2) I currently have set the permission to 755 for the backup folder...
Just wondering if it can/should be lowered to be a little bit more secure...

My direct path to folder is: /home/xxxxxxx/backups.
Backups folder permission set to 777
I run backup all successful :
Processed Database in 11.074 secondsBackup Completed Successfully Done

I find DB file : backupsForum-2012-01-22-Full-Backup.sql but not in backups folder

I look into backups folder and there is no files. What I am doing wrong?

could someone help me on how to run as cron job? I have installed the plugin but what should i do next?

Thanks

How I can change : how often auto backup can be created

Change the cron job settings - however, they are somewhat limited unless you want to run every hour or more.

Can you tell me the effect, if any of trying to install this on a hacked 4.1.6?

Please advise.

TY

Install it and see. I cannot advise on specific set-ups.

i have wierd problem , after

Processing podcastitem (No Row Data)
Processing poll (25) : Processed 25 Rows in 0.007 Seconds
Processing pollvote (2230) : Processed 2230 Rows in 0.213 Seconds
Processing post (104156) : Processed 45339 Rows in 21.424 Seconds

i get this

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.9:

Invalid SQL:
SHOW CREATE TABLE `postedithistory`;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Wednesday, February 8th 2012 @ 10:32:35 PM
Error Date : Wednesday, February 8th 2012 @ 10:33:01 PM
Script : http://www.myweb.com/admincp/cronadm...cron&cronid=41
Referrer : http://www.myweb.com/admincp/cronadmin.php?do=modify
IP Address : *
Username : my
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :


Any suggestion , never happen before . I use to run version autobackup 4.0.1 for sometime, and no problems. i got 2 weeks now with this problem and i have no idea where did com from .


i installet new version 4.1.7 i have same problem :/

can u please tell me what to do guys because hostgator is so crap when u try to back up files manualy , it never gives u full kb or mb in sql files. Autobackup make such a good job, and it gives u every bit of your website.


Regards.