Can you possibly do an automatic restore function?

I have plan to do it in next releases

i just tested this and the backup failed due to 'please check path and permissions to the backup directory' -
the directory i am using was originally owned by root and then i changed that to my own username (octal permissions 755).
any idea what i've missed?
thanks

@ura soul ☯

you should change ownership and set it to www-data (Apache User)
for ex. like this:
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/elgg/ -R

ah, i am using nginx and so i set the owning user to nginx:nginx..
though that did not make a difference to the backup process.
i deselected the option to backup the data folder and also the site folder.. so only the database backup was selected.. and i still saw the same error.
i looked in the logfile and saw errors relating to having shell_exec disabled.. so i have now enabled that..
though the error messages in the backup_tool remain.

ok, I will check it on nginx and let you know

I'm using this with nginx on CentOS 6, folder is owned by nginx:nginx and it makes backups without a problem. But I'm using the first version of this plugin, have not tested latest release yet. Just wanted to share.

ok, thanks for the infos

For correct work you need to create a new folder outside the Elgg installation folder, and set a correct permissions and ownership on it. If you have access only to ftp, you cannot change ownership, you can change only permissions, so you can set it to 777 and set path to this folder into plugins settings. It not safe to set in 777 but it should work.. Also I do not think that any free hosting allows to use shell_exec function and to run a some shell commands from php which I use in my plugin for creating backups.

This may be a silly question, but what does the option "Database dump" do?

Good!

I am unable to see and Backup buttons in admin area. Plugin settings are visible. I already tried to move it up and down and perform upgrade action.

I manually tried below url and it give me white page.

sitename/ajax/view/backup-tool/create-backup

Here only php codes are displaying instead of options.

sitename/admin/backups/schedule

THANK YOU!

I hope you will also release the restore function.

Thank you again!!!!

@ghuman In the admin right side menu, you will see "Backup" under "Administer". Click on "Latest Backups" and you will see a button "create a new backup". Great plugin! hope that restore will also come!

@inca there is no backup button under utilities as shown in screen shot.

Even it brak ajax script when I click on any link like , settings, plugin nothing happened.

You should change the tar options from "-cf" to "-chf". This will make sure the data files are backed up if your datapath has a symlink. Without it, your archive will not have the files, just the symlink.

Would be great if this very useful plugin was updated to elgg 1.9.

I found an issue with ELGG 1.8.  When I activated the Backup plugin, the buttons on the Administration page which have drop down submenus (such as on the Statistics, Users and Utilities buttons) all stop working.

That isn't happening on my 1.8.19 install. Sure it is an effect of this plugin?

is there any description no how to restore a database?

this is breaking the submenu dropdowns for me too in the latest version of 1.8. anyone find a fix yet?

Someone share experience on elgg 1.9?

Last 2 weeks the backup work does not finish. It keep working and working. I made no change in installation. Maybe my hosting company did. Any idea anyboduy?