I think the best advantage that I could think of is (and Paul correct me if I am wrong), is some shared servers may not have the ability to restore a large file before timing out. So you could instead restore a table at a time.

Is there any way to automatically delete backups that are older than X days? That would be cool to save some disk space.

I only use the date of the month in the filename, and have verified that when the month rolls around, it deletes and creates a new file for that date. I end up with no more than 31 files.

Depends on what you want. Its easier to restore a single table if you split them, but in most cases you will want to restore an entire database, in which case a whole file is better.

JFYI, I use the single file option.

Ok, thanks guys.

Niceee

After a few failed attempts at identifying the relative path to /backups/, the mod is working like a charm! I had tried previously tried almost everything to set up a backup cron job through the forum host without success.

FYI changed ../../backups/ to ././backups after finding the tip in the mod comments

Great Mod! Works like a champ!

Voted MOTM

Can I delete or drop or truncate cronlog table because it is too large and the backup process stop at