Ah... well... you should have said so right up front. Write from your web page... you should setup a command to call mysql_dump, passing it appropriate values (dba user id, dba password, etc.) http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/mysql_dump.html It's NOT rocket science - you should be able to set it up in one afternoon. Larr. --- In php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Shehzad Asghar Saddiq" <shehzad_asghar@...> wrote: > > I want to give the end user an option to make back ups from the site > administration panel. >