Haha you do have a point. I suspect I've learned to be careful the hardway. That is by blowing stuff up. :)

Installed and working on vbulletin 4.1.10

perfect. working with 4.1.10

Processed Database in 1.523 seconds

[Compressing Combined File] : Processed File Compression in 0.001 seconds

Backup Completed Successfully
Done

When I run it, it keeps stopping at about the 7,200,000 block or 7,300,000 block of the postindex table. The table has about 8,000,000 records.

I enabled Block Processing and Block Size of 100,000. No error messages. It just stops.

Tried it with both Combine Files on and off. And also with block size at 50,000.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

I don't do much on the server so I have lost my knowledge regarding file permissions.

What permissions should I give to my backup directory?

Thanks.

That really depends on what user your webserver is using. In most cases you will need 777.

Nope, but when a script just stops, thats usually a timeout somewhere.

I've been hearing that it's necessary (or at least advisable) to close your forum before doing a database backup. Is that true?

If so, should the forum be closed when this script runs?

No, it isnt necessary to close it.

Installed Great Working On vBulletin 4.1.10