I'm afraid that doing this would involve significant changes to the plugin, as it just uses WordPress's default database object.

If you know a little PHP, you could do this by changing all instances of "$wpdb" to some other name and then instantiate that variable like so:

$my_db_name = new wpdb('username', 'password', 'databasename', 'host');

Hi Filosofo,

I have been using your plugin for some time and have been very impressed by how easy it is to setup and how reliably it works.
In fact, I would like to use this plugin to backup databases that are not part of the wordpress db. In effect, use this as a one stop backup solution for all databases on a hosted server. There are currently five different databases on the server and if there was a way to back all these up using this plugin the extra security and simplicity would be fantastic.

If you could suggest a way that this could be done I would be extremely grateful for any help that you could provide.

Thank you in advance,
Achilleas