After a server crash I uploaded a full backup of the site (2.0.3). Everything works right except for the backend.php. When backend.php is called it writes db%3Asystem_rss.html to the cache directory. The contents look sparse like this:
a:3:{s:8:"template";a:1:{i:0;s:18:"db:system_rss.html";}s:9:"timestamp";i:1079875328;s:7:"expires";i:1079878928;}

This, of course, ends in an empty xml output.
I was thinking I had some permissions wrong when I uploaded the backup, but I can't think what it could be.

Anyone?

Thanks

Please excuse the acts of this foolish man. The hitch was I forgot chmod templates_c - sorry.

A new question: Why do characters such as " ' " appear as squares (undisplayable characters) in the RSS? Fix?

Regarding Backup:

Is PHP or module available for backup? phpDump or phpMyAdmin alternative.