Title: [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Not backing-up files
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Not backing-up files

 *  [kitcorsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitcorsa/)
 * (@kitcorsa)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-backing-up-files/)
 * managed to kill my site today by changing the sites theme function file.
 * After downloading a backup generated by this plugin the backup function.php was
   exactly the same as the one i had changed (with the errors)
 * downloaded a backup 7 days old and again the function.php file was as the new
   one i edited an hour ago.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-backing-up-files/#post-2553644)
 * Hi kitcorsa
 * I’m not sure I understand your issue exactly.
 * Are you saying that old backupwordpress backups contain a file that you only 
   just edited? That would sound impossible.
 *  Thread Starter [kitcorsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitcorsa/)
 * (@kitcorsa)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-backing-up-files/#post-2553717)
 * yeah thats exactally what im saying!
 * as if the backup of the files isn’t actally creating a backup but just creats
   the zip download when you click the download link….
 * where i store my backup on the server and download if and when i need them
 *  Thread Starter [kitcorsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitcorsa/)
 * (@kitcorsa)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-backing-up-files/#post-2553718)
 * there has been updates since this post so im not sure if this issue has been 
   sorted.
 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-backing-up-files/#post-2553744)
 * The backup definitely doesn’t create the zip at the point you click download,
   there must be some other explanation for what is happening.
 * Can you reproduce the issue separately to that incident?

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-backing-up-files/#post-2553744)
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