I am not able to get this module to work, and am not that technical, but two things would help folks like me to try to work through the setup process ourselves.

1) It is not clear if the Test Settings button is just testing that it can find your directories successfully, or if it is also testing that the path to Pear and the path to Tar are working as well. Adding some confirmation that these two settings are correct would help a lot.

2) I would like to see a few examples of how to properly reference directories added to back up in the instructions. For example, I have my drupal site in a subdir of my web root of /public_html/live.
I have tried lots of iterations to try to get the backup-files module believe that the live directory exists, but to no avail.
I have tried....
live
/live
./live
../live
../public_html/live
etc, etc,
Knowing which one of these is supposed to work properly would help me debug what is wrong.

Thanks.

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nrackleff commented

I am having the same problem. I did not have PEAR installed, so I was not using the backup files module. Then I installed civicrm which contains PEAR. I entered the path to pear.php as sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages in the field and clicked the Test Settings button. I got nothing but a blank white page. I also tried ../civicrm... and other variations but can't get any of them to work. Thanks for any help you can give me on this.