Title: Database
Last modified: September 19, 2016

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# Database

 *  Resolved [markwebstar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwebstar/)
 * (@markwebstar)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-39/)
 * I’m trying to backup a site using Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions 
   but it’s failing :-
    Database Failed To Backup On ’19 Sep 16 @ 9:18 am’. Backup
   File Size Is 0KB.
 * The warning message is as follows :-
    Warning: escapeshellarg() has been disabled
   for security reasons in /home/[NAMEREMOVED]/public_html/[NAMEREMOVED]/wp-content/
   plugins/wp-dbmanager/database-backup.php on line 51
 * Please could someone help me to fix this problem ?
 * Thanks !

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 *  Thread Starter [markwebstar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwebstar/)
 * (@markwebstar)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-39/#post-8201745)
 * This has been fixed now – my provider said that that scapeshellarg() had been
   disabled in php.ini so they have removed it from the blocklist.
 * It seems to be working now.

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 * Last reply from: [markwebstar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwebstar/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-39/#post-8201745)
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