So you are saying "yes, all of the forum data would be in these backup files" ...
Then I'm wondering if there isn't a bug.
There is no way to compress 300 meg to 5 ..
I ran a test and compressed my Fourm28:
It's 19K files and 172 meg. It Zip'ed to 41 meg.
I may know what happened then.
When I was running the backup from the control panel (even though you do not recommend doing this :p) I DID notice something very strange… I saw one of the .sql files changing size! I'm sorry, I do not remember the name, but let's say it was ubbt_foo.sql …
As I watched the directory during the backup, this file would change to 200K, then 300K, then 200K, then 400K, then 200K… and it kept doing this until the backup finished.
Theory: Each forum was backed up to a single output file, overwriting the output from the forum before it. I speculate that the backup is everything + 1 forum (the last one backed-up.)
