Cant Backup Files?

[Guest]

Can anyone help?

 

Everytime I click on 'Database Backup' under tools, I get an error message at the top of the screen. The message says

 

"Error: Backup directory does not exist. Please set this in configure.php."

 

Does anyone know what it is I need to configure in the configure.php file? Am very new to this, so could do with the simplest of instructions.

 

Thanks in advance

[Jack_mcs]

That usually means the backups directory does not exist. Take a look in your admin directory and see if it is there. If not, add it.

 

Jack

[Guest]

Checked that already.....The admin contains a folder named backup.php not backups.php.

 

Added the backups.php anyway. It still says the same folder.

 

Do you know what needs to be corrected in the configure.php?

[BryceJr]

Checked that already.....The admin contains a folder named backup.php not backups.php.

 

Added the backups.php anyway. It still says the same folder.

 

Do you know what needs to be corrected in the configure.php?

Folder name does not have a dot php(.php) extension.

It should have 755 permission.

[Guest]

Sorry, meant to say the admin contains a file called backup.php not a folder.

 

When I click database backup, this message appears at the top in red "Error: Backup directory does not exist. Please set this in configure.php."

 

What do I do??

[Jan Zonjee]

When I click database backup, this message appears at the top in red "Error: Backup directory does not exist. Please set this in configure.php."

 

What do I do??

What the error implies and the message says: create a directory that you want to save your backups too (my_secret_backups) and adjust the entry in admin/includes/configure.php that tells osC where to find it:

  define('DIR_FS_BACKUP', DIR_FS_ADMIN . 'my_secret_backups/');