Backup MySQL database with CodeIgniter

Question

I have been looking into the user guide which came with CodeIgniter. I became very interested with the dbutil() method. Particularly the following line of code:

Answer 1

These lines have been grabbed from codeigniters documentation:

Important: In order to initialize the Utility class, your database driver must already be running, since the utilities class relies on it.

Please check if your database class is loaded or not when you call this function. Or you can put this line before loading the dbutil class $this->load->database();