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I fail to see why someone else needs to be able to download a database backup. I explained that. It's to protect against the hosting service 'disappearing' (e.g. suddenly going out of business) and the online backups thus becoming inaccessible. If the backup has been downloaded by an admin, to whom...

you would need a backup host account owner. Talk about mixed messages! One response says that I shouldn't share anything with anybody else, another that I should share every aspect of host management with somebody else! As it happens pretty much my entire site is mirrored at a different host, so I'...

Why are you delegating backups anyway? If you own the site, you should be the sole proprietor and only YOU should have the backups. That's crazy. I might get sick, I might be on a long vacation, I might get run over by a bus - lots of things can happen that would prevent me performing that role, an...

Why would they need to download a backup? Backups are stored in the /store I have no idea how effectively my hosting company backs up their server. Anyway what would happen if they went bust and closed down at short notice, what certainty would there be that I could access the forum backups then? P...

I take a 'hands off' approach to a forum which I own (i.e. of which I am the founder) and delegate all admin roles to others, including backups. This worked fine when I was running phpBB 3.2.2 but I have recently upgraded to 3.3.0 and the option to download backups has been removed from the ACP. I u...