[Typo3] Backup problems

[Nate Russell]

Hello List,

My company has has the Ready-To Run Server at Schlund. There are lots of 
options available to us but we unfortunately don't have root access. 
This means of course that I don't have access to the php.ini file. This 
is a bummer because I have a rather large site and I am having trouble 
backing it up. I have tried the w4x_backup extension but I can not open 
the resulting .gz file when the script is done. I think this is because 
the php script execution time is too low and our database is too big 
(around 400mb). This is causing, I think, underlying processes to time 
out. Like I said, we don't have root access and therefore can not change 
this value in the php.ini file.

Other than getting a different host or hosting package and moving all of 
our data to a new server, Are there any options I can try to solve my 
problem?

I have already tried deleting the caches before running the backup 
extension but I got the same results. I would still like use the 
w4x_backup extension because it offers such an easy solution.

Any tips?

Thanks,
Nate Russell