[Paul M]

There seems to be a lot of confusion about this line ;

PHP Code:

 $backup['DUMP_PATH'] = DIR.'/../../backups/';  // Path ( With trailing '/' ) 


Please note that the DIR is on the righthand side of the equals, and is a constant created by vbulletin - it is the full path to your forums root folder.

For example (in windows) it might be "d:/wwwroot/forum" - it has NO trailing '/' at the end, so the rest of the path definition adds one - so in this example the path defined above is "d:/wwwroot/forum/../../backups/" - which with the two '../' translates into "d:/backups/" a folder outside your public html folder. That backups folder must be writable by the webserver.

If you just want to specify a direct path then do so - e.g.

PHP Code:

 $backup['DUMP_PATH'] = 'e:/some/path/mybackups/';  // Path ( With trailing '/' ) 


Originally Posted by KoC

Is there any option for upload the file automaticly via ftp

No.

Originally Posted by steadicamop

This works very well, but I have a problem which I think isn't solveable - I think the php execution time is set at around 30 seconds, which often times out when it's backing up a table, and will only ever reach postindex before it ends, never carrying out a full backup - is there any way around this? I really would like this as it's damn handy to have daily backups!!!

Plus as I've just discovered, it leaves the forum offline!

The script timeout on this is 3600 (1 hour). You can set the close forum option to 0 if you don't want it to close your forum during backups. It won't open the forum again until it completes ok.