This is written for osC 2.2 with PHP 5 and has been tested on PHP 4 & 5, SQL 4 & 5, osC 2.2 ms2 & rc1 plus is register_globals compatible so should work with most versions.

This contribution automatically backs up your database at regular intervals whilst you are logged into admin.
It will create an archive backup at a longer intervals, you set the intervals in admin.
It can also zip or gzip the backups, if required, also set in admin.

Having gained access to a server with PHP 4 I`ve finally been able to remove last remaining bug with php 4, it was a little documented variation in a timeing function.
Backups by Database Backup Manager are read properly these will now be ignored unless they are the only files in the backup directory.

Forum at http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=303380

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