Title: [Plugin: UpdraftPlus] Warning: A zip error occured
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# [Plugin: UpdraftPlus] Warning: A zip error occured

 *  [Matthew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dancemat/)
 * (@dancemat)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updraftplus-warning-a-zip-error-occured-1/)
 * Hello Everyone,
 * First post here, so please be gentle. 🙂
 * I have tried running both UpdraftPlus latest and dev version and get the same
   error.
 * I have posted the log file here: [http://pastebin.com/5JhjYqrC](http://pastebin.com/5JhjYqrC)
 * It seems that I only have PclZip installed on my host and not ZipArchive
 * Many thanks in advance,
 * Matthew 🙂

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 *  [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updraftplus-warning-a-zip-error-occured-1/#post-5334981)
 * Hi,
 * > 0000.606 (0) Closing the zip file returned an error (PCLZIP_ERR_READ_OPEN_FAIL(-
   > 2) : Unable to open temporary file ‘pclzip-5414ded66f097.tmp’ in binary write
   > mode). List of files we were trying to add follows (check their permissions).
 * This suggests that PclZip doesn’t have write access to where it puts its temporary
   files. I think by default this is the root directory of your WordPress install.
   You could either make that directory writable, or alternatively change it with
   something like this in your wp-config.php:
 * define(‘PCLZIP_TEMPORARY_DIR’, ABSPATH.’wp-content/uploads’);
 * Then try a fresh backup. You should also update the plugin to the current version
   first (1.9.26) – yours looks (1.9.20) like it’s a few versions behind.
 * David

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 * Last reply from: [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updraftplus-warning-a-zip-error-occured-1/#post-5334981)
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