Title: Error message when backing up
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error message when backing up

 *  [bdsr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdsr/)
 * (@bdsr)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-backing-up/)
 * Can you please help? I am getting the following error message when I try to back
   up a site and I don’t know what it means:
 * Zip archive create error: PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4): File ‘….public_html/wp-
   content/plugins/backwpup/job/session_mm_cgi-fcgi623.sem’
 * Thank you.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-backing-up/#post-3470841)
 * set ‘session_mm_cgi-fcgi’ to the excludes folder to backup settings

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