• Ok I have this set to backup the database, plugins and files, it runs; says it’s OK but when I download the file, or FTP it back over to myself it says the ZIP file is invalid…??? Any ideas?

    I want to use this plugin but I have not gotten it to work unless I backup everything separately…PITA

    Any ideas?

    Thanks in advance!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/

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  • Thread Starter fourwhitesocks

    (@fourwhitesocks)

    Update: I uninstalled the plugin and installed it again and it still does not work. I use this with exactly the same settings and it keeps saying that the file is invalid…??

    Plugin Author Daniel Hüsken

    (@danielhuesken)

    Please try to use a tar archive formart.

    Thread Starter fourwhitesocks

    (@fourwhitesocks)

    Wow Ok Daniel, I will try that today and repost!

    Thank you for answering!!

    I had a similar problem today with my tar.gz backup, but had something similar with a zip earlier. The solution was to turn off/kick out Avast! antivirus.

    Thread Starter fourwhitesocks

    (@fourwhitesocks)

    OMGosh Axel, I’m using Avast!! I will try doing what you said! Thanks for adding that information! I will post an update on trying that…

    Thread Starter fourwhitesocks

    (@fourwhitesocks)

    It seems to have worked better, although I did get an error message about part of something from the Plugin folder..not sure what that is about.

    Axel what software are you using for opening / extracting your tar.gz files by chance?

    Thread Starter fourwhitesocks

    (@fourwhitesocks)

    Wow Axel you are my hero of the day!! I have tested it twice now and even changed it to just a simple zip file and it works great!!

    I wonder if there is a way to just tell Avast that it’s ‘ok’ or something so you don’t have to keep disabling it…?

    Plugin Author Daniel Hüsken

    (@danielhuesken)

    OK, nice to know.

    @fourwhitesocks – TY & glad it helped! 🙂 I use 7zip, but I doubt this matters, because the error happens on download, before 7zip gets involved. For some reason the download doesn’t finish entirely. I mentioned it on the feedback form when uninstalling Avast…

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