"WARNING: Your backup directory is NOT writable! We can not create the backup directory.
/home/fulwood/public_html/wp/"

What should the permissions be on the backup directory? I have no idea. I wonder whether I may have broken something in upgrading from WP 2.0.7 as the backups worked fine with that.

Thanks in advance.

unfortunately, my site is hosted on windows. so i am unable to use my ftp program to change the permissions of my backup folder so that the backup plugin can write to it. thus, i get the following error message each time i try to run the backup:

WARNING: Your backup directory is NOT writable! We cannot create the backup files.

must i use an program like plesk or get my hosting provider to change the directory permissions?

Question. It seems the advice given for the "Backup" directory is to change the permissions to 777. I've managed to get it working using 773 (removing public read access).

I have two questions...

1) Is there any way we can make whatever user WP Database uses part of a group so that public has no access whatsoever to that directory?

2) Isn't 777 a huge security vulnerability?

i just installed and activated wp-db-backup 2.1.4 and when i went to the Manage -> Backup tab the following messages were displayed:
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WARNING: Your wp-content directory is NOT writable! We can not create the backup directory.
/wordpress/wp-content/backup-96d3c/
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WARNING: Your backup directory is NOT writable! We can not create the backup directory.
/wordpress/
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obviously these messages were generated because the write permissions need to be set. but why two messages?
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i'm assuming that the first message is because wp-db-backup want's to create the "backup-96d3c" directory. (btw, why "96d3c"? how is that number generated?)
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why is there a second message that's referring to the root of the WP installation? is wp-db-backup attempting to write some additional information?
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how do i change my backup directory ("backup-96d3c" located beneath my WP installation is less than ideal for me)?
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when wp-db-backup saves a backup to a directory, what does it do with any backups that already exist in said directory?
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is there any documentation for the wp-db-backup plugin?
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can _scheduled_ backups be set to save to a directory rather than being sent via email?
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how are backup names constructed?
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thanks,
david

I just tried to backup my database but your plugin won't work unfortunately. Everytime there is a popup with the text: "The backup file couldn't be saved. Please check the permissions for writing to your backup directory and try again. Couldn't open the backup file for writing!"
I've changed the permissions for /wp-content/backup-7061b to 777, but it still not work. Could I do something else?