[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TECK

Thanks for the detailed info, Marco.
That should teach all how important is NOT to make backups using any tools other then mysqldump.

That is nothing more than your opinion, it is not a fact.

He was indeed using one of my modifications to create backups each night, the very same one I use to backup my forums (without any problems).

The important mistake he made was never checking his backups - how you create them isn't that important (and web based methods are perfectly acceptable) - what is important is that you check them, and better still do a restore every so often to a test database, to make sure everything works.

Originally Posted by TECK

People who release backup hacks should warn the users that their tools have 99.99% chances to produce corrupted backups, no matter what's the size of the database.

What complete and utter nonsense. Please don't make ridiculous statements like this again.