[Markos]

first of all thanks Paul i just upgraded to the new one worked first time

why not put your "backups" folder in home/xxxxx/ and change the path to that and see if that works and change the path to

$backup['DUMP_PATH'] = 'home/xxxxx/backups/';

Originally Posted by Bob_R

Just tried to run manually.

I have Safe Mode Off
The backup folder is named backups and is set to 777
And, I'm quite sure the path is correct

and I still get the error.

Automatic Database Backup for vBulletin 3.8
An error occured during the Backup : Could not open Destination SQL file for writing.

Here's my path:

$backup['DUMP_PATH'] = 'home/xxxxx/public_html/dumontnjforum.com/forums/backups/'; // Path to backups folder, must have a trailing slash, folder must be writable.