[mishb68]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You change the permissions on your chosen backup folder to 777.

Thanks so much for this mod, it's unbelievably helpful. I got it working without any problems and I'm not great at this.

I only have one question, isn't setting the permissions to 777 just asking for your database to be accessible to anyone especially if you have your backup folder called something obvious like "backupfolder" or similar?

Update:
I changed my backup folder name to something not guessable, but also changed my permissions to 733, ran the backup and it worked fine. After changing the permissions I navigated to forum/*backupfile name* and got a 403 error (which is fine) but the backup is on the server.