MYSQL Backup addon error

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"Result code: 127"

"Skip Lock option (check this if you get a LOCK TABLES permissions error)
ERROR: Could not locate the MYSQLDUMP backup utility. BACKUP FAILED."


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I have same error. I did a backup last week and everything worked fine. Now all of a sudden I get this error. /admin/backups is CHMOD 777

Why would it stop working when it was working previously?



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Well after nosing around I learned that, despite the Zen instruction to turn on safe mode, this backup utility will not function if it is on. All the buttons etc. appear but it won't work. I either have to leave safe mode off or remember to turn it off when I want to do a backup.