Title: ERROR: Error while writing file! Last modified: January 5, 2022 --- # ERROR: Error while writing file! * [EM3DESIGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/em3designit/) * (@em3designit) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-error-while-writing-file/) * Hello, in several websites the DB backup generates ERROR: Error while writing file! Backing up the ends is no problem. Until a few days ago it has always worked. What may have happened? Greetings and thanks` * [INFO] BackWPup 3.10.0; A project of Inpsyde GmbH [INFO] WordPress 5.8.2 on [https://rfmicrotech.com/](https://rfmicrotech.com/) [INFO] Log Level: Normal[ INFO] BackWPup job: DB [INFO] Logfile is: backwpup_log_221003_2022-01-05_18-50- 18.html [INFO] Backup file is: backwpup_ZGXVNY2X02_2022-01-05_18-50-18.zip [05- Jan-2022 18:50:18] 1. Try to backup database … [05-Jan-2022 18:50:18] Connected to database emit_rfmicrotech.comV2 on localhost [05-Jan-2022 18:50:22] ERROR: Error while writing file! [05-Jan-2022 18:50:22] 2. Try to backup database … [ 05-Jan-2022 18:50:22] Connected to database emit_rfmicrotech.comV2 on localhost[ 05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] ERROR: Error while writing file! [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] 3. Try to backup database … [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] Connected to database emit_rfmicrotech. comV2 on localhost [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] ERROR: Error while writing file! [05- Jan-2022 18:50:23] ERROR: Step aborted: too many attempts! [05-Jan-2022 18:50: 23] 1. Trying to generate a manifest file … [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] Added manifest. json file with 5.26 KB to backup file list. [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] 1. Trying to create backup archive … [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] Compressing files as ZipArchive. Please be patient, this may take a moment. [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] Backup archive created. [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] Archive size is 1.45 KB. [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] 2 Files with 5.48 KB in Archive. [05-Jan-2022 18:50:23] 1. Try to send backup file to Dropbox … [05-Jan-2022 18:50:24] Authenticated with Dropbox of user: Backup rfmicrotech.com [05-Jan-2022 18:50:24] Uploading to Dropbox … [05-Jan- 2022 18:50:25] Backup transferred to /BACKUP/DB/backwpup_ZGXVNY2X02_2022-01-05_18- 50-18.zip [05-Jan-2022 18:50:26] One file deleted from Dropbox [05-Jan-2022 18: 50:26] ERROR: Job has ended with errors in 8 seconds. You must resolve the errors for correct execution. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/) * (@duongcuong96) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-error-while-writing-file/#post-15228188) * Hello [@em3designit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/em3designit/) could you please help me check the backup archive first just to make sure if it works? TY * Thread Starter [EM3DESIGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/em3designit/) * (@em3designit) * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-error-while-writing-file/#post-15231797) * What should I check? Backups of (only) files works. DB backup does not work ( save only 2 files backwpup_readme.txt and manifest.json). - This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by [EM3DESIGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/em3designit/). * [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/) * (@duongcuong96) * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-error-while-writing-file/#post-15235804) * [@em3designit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/em3designit/) sorry I mean change to Tar instead of Zip then try again ^^ TY * [barback](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barback/) * (@barback) * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-error-while-writing-file/#post-15281800) * I have just discovered that my db backups on at least one site stopped working between 12/28/21 (successful backup) and 1/4/21 ERROR: Error while writing file! * I successfully used phpadmin to download a database backup, but I need to see this issue addressed. * Here’s the debug info: * ``` WordPress version: 5.8.3 BackWPup version: 3.10.0 PHP version: 7.3.33 (64bit) MySQL version: 5.7.37 cURL version: 7.79.1 cURL SSL version: OpenSSL/1.1.1m WP-Cron url: https://blackislemusic.com/wp-cron.php Server self connect: Not expected HTTP response: Status-Code: 200 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:43:51 GMT Server: Apache Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT Cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Content-length: 0 Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Document root: /home/blackisl/public_html Temp folder: /home/blackisl/public_html/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-193f7e-temp/ Log folder: /home/blackisl/public_html/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-4b43e4-logs/ Server: Apache Operating System: Linux PHP SAPI: fpm-fcgi Current PHP user: blackisl Maximum execution time: 30 seconds BackWPup maximum script execution time: 30 seconds Alternative WP Cron: Off Disabled WP Cron: Off CHMOD Dir: 0755 Server Time: 19:43 Blog Time: 14:43 Blog Timezone: America/New_York Blog Time offset: -5 hours Blog language: en-US MySQL Client encoding: utf8 PHP Memory limit: 512M WP memory limit: 40M WP maximum memory limit: 512M Memory in use: 99.00 MB Disabled PHP Functions:: exec, passthru, shell_exec, system Loaded PHP Extensions:: Core, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, i360, iconv, json, libxml, mbstring, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, posix, session, soap, sockets, sqlite3, standard, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib ``` Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘ERROR: Error while writing file!’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/backwpup/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3236141) * [BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/reviews/) ## Tags * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/) * [writing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/writing/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [barback](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barback/) * Last activity: [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-error-while-writing-file/#post-15281800) * Status: not resolved