I have seen that problem on CGI server types a few times. I believe it can be caused by using SSH under another user which then changes the Ownership of the folder/file.
While here to let you know everything is fine following a fresh BPS installation, I just now realized I might have caused the problem while fumbling around a bit while installing phpMyAdmin on my domain.
http://kb.siteground.com/how_to_access_phpmyadmin_directly_from_my_domain/
In any case, I had an Arvixe Support Tech do a chmod 0755 / 0644 on my account, and then I went back in and made the suggested BPS changes…and now the problem is gone. But however this incident had happened, you were right once again.
You already know this, of course, but your BPS DB Backup is a great tool! I had read your announcement when it was first added, but I had lots of other stuff going on at that time and I had only taken a quick look. I now have it set on all sites, and I know BPS can be trusted to do what it is supposed to do and to do things well.
If this might be possible, maybe consider adding some kind of link within BPS DB Backup for a popup to the WP Clean Up https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-clean-up/ plugin, where installed. That plugin does a great job of cleaning and optimizing, and I always use it before doing manual backups. The database backup plugin I had used in the past has its own cleaner/optimizer, but I had done some testing and WP Clean Up does even more cleaning after the other one had finished.
While setting up BPS DB Backup for the first time on eight sites sitting side-by-side in my browser, new backup jobs did not get saved until I had learned to first check, uncheck and then recheck “All” at DB Table Name. So, maybe some kind of refresh could be added there.
If I may, I would suggest these re-arrangements of BPS SD Backup Job options:
Backup Job Type: Manual or Scheduled
Scheduled DB Backup Job
Manual DB Backup Job
Frequency of Scheduled Backup Job (recurring)
Monthly DB Backup Job
Weekly DB Backup Job
Daily DB Backup Job
N/A
Day of Month When Scheduled Backup is Run (recurring)
(as is)
Day of Week When Scheduled Backup is Run (recurring)
(as is)
Hour When Scheduled Backup is Run (recurring)
(as is)
As those are right now, it took me a while while to get past the broken flow of intuitive logic when encountering Day-of-Week while looking for Day-of-Month to set up a Monthly Scheduled DB Backup Job.
And finally, it would be great to have the option to uncheck “Zip” when doing backups that will not be e-mailed. Having to un-Zip a database backup to do a restoration from an SFTP-dowloaded file makes for more work, and it also doubles the number of files I store locally…
…and many thanks for considering my unsolicited opinions!
Great plugin.
