Title: It almost worked perfectly…
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# It almost worked perfectly…

 *  [brpubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brpubs/)
 * (@brpubs)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-almost-worked-perfectly/)
 * …but it didn’t include the plug-ins directory in the backup.
 * I was testing this in a new installation to see if I wanted to use it for backup
   and restore, and backed up by ftp to a different subdomain. When I then restored
   in that subdomain, I ended up with a fatal error, which tracked to the entire
   plugins directory being missing.
 * Once I copied in that subdirectory from the site I had backed up, all was good.
 * Any idea what might cause one directory to go missing like that? Is it possible
   that I didn’t wait long enough for the backup? I did notice that a message of“
   49 seconds remaining” lasted for about 10 minutes — long after the tar.gz file
   appeared on the server — but in the logs, my backup is marked as ok.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/)

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