Your Daily Database Backup Failed. -

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Everything was ok until this weekend and started getting the following message in the daily backup PM

Your Daily Database Backup Failed.

Don't know why. Nothing changed over the weekend.

[Whisky]

Are u sure your backup folder has still CHMOD set to 777 ?

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Yea I checked it and it was 777. Re-did it again to 777.
Checked again this morning again backup failed again.

[DDay629]

If you check a while back, I started a long topic on this and they came up with various ways to fix this that I never bothered with cause I don't have the time. <img>

DDay

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

OK - Been going on for over a week now - Failed backups

[Hyster]

I am also getting that. I puts the file backup in the backup folder, but the byte count is 0.

[found it]

Hi

You can have a search here or have a look at the authors site found [url=http]here[/url]

Also have you installed any mods etc...?

I hope that helps

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Only thing I added was the googlebot detector mod, I think Frost posted.

[Hyster]

I can do a manual backup and it works. Not sure why the backup will create the file but never populate the file.. <img>

[Joshie]

This is happening to me right now. I was going to make a thread about this. But, you made it. So, I am hoping that someone will help you on that one, and.. help me too since it's happening to me too.

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

I guess it's been an issue for a while and nothing has been figured out yet.

[Helter]

there are several reasons for your backup to fail.

not enough memory. try raising your mem limit in php.ini This will often cause backups with 0 kb because the backup starts, then fails.

system() is disabled on your server. Often system() is disabled by default and you must turn it on. Ive been told that enabling system() is a security risk, but it is a low risk.

php "safe mode" will restrict which Unix commands you can access. Sometimes it can interfere

try increasing .script execution time in php.ini if you have a large db

The backup function is a simple php command, so if you have correctly chmodded the backup folder to 777 and pointed to it in acp/general admin/Security/special and checked the "enable" box, it will work unless your server is blocking it

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Mine worked for about 5 weeks and just started coming back failed.

[sanji]

system() is disabled on your server.

This could be the problem. My host, for example, decided one day to disable this functionality. Did you check with your host is this is still enable?

On the other hand, many hosts provide automatic backup of your SQL tables, which could be a better way to make safety copies...

sanji

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

No worries then - my host does their own backups.

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

I am not sure if this is a fix, but Helter mentioned to me to change folders from 777 to 775 to fix a different problem.
Ever since that change, my backups are working again.

Try changing Backup folder CHMOD to 775 and see if it works.