database backups

After ignoring the warning about doing a backup before upgrading, because I was lazy, I decided to look into it for next time. (All went well, so this is being forward-looking.) Also, I'm at A2 Hosting on a Linux server and was unaware of their debacle with their Windows servers until today. So...

Hello all, Bit of a tricky thing to do this seems, I need to enable CGI scripts / PERL for mysqldumper so I can enable automatic, scheduled backups. I use Sypex Dumper also, have used it for months now - but can't figure out the cron to schedule it...