Title: WARNUNG: Illegal string offset ‘.tag’
Last modified: July 4, 2017

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# WARNUNG: Illegal string offset ‘.tag’

 *  Resolved [mkj2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkj2/)
 * (@mkj2)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warnung-illegal-string-offset-tag/)
 * Hallo,
 * we see a lot of error messages like this: WARNUNG: Illegal string offset ‘.tag’.
   The backups seems to be fine. However, what exactly is wrong? The PHP version
   seems not to be the problem. One PHP 7.0 installation runs without any problems,
   others do not. Any ideas?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Brandon Olivares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cocreation/)
 * (@cocreation)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warnung-illegal-string-offset-tag/#post-9291983)
 * Hi [@mkj2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkj2/), in order to see exactly
   why it might be happening, I’d need to see a full debug log including this error.
 * You can generate a debug log as follows:
    1. Go to BackWPup > Settings > Logs and set Logging Level to Debug (not translated).
    2. Run the job again.
    3. Download the log file from Logs, and attach that in an email to support [at]
       backwpup.com.
 * I need the file itself because it contains metadata that is useful in debugging
   such errors.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Brandon Olivares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cocreation/)
 * (@cocreation)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warnung-illegal-string-offset-tag/#post-9320078)
 * [@mkj2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkj2/) are you still having this 
   issue? I unfortunately cannot proceed further without a log.
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warnung-illegal-string-offset-tag/#post-9359734)
 * Hi [@mkj2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkj2/),
 * since we haven’t heard back from you, I’m going to mark it as resolved.
    If you’re
   still having problems, feel free to let us know ;), Cuong
 *  Thread Starter [mkj2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkj2/)
 * (@mkj2)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warnung-illegal-string-offset-tag/#post-9411209)
 * Well, it’s a bit erratic. Sometimes the error occurs, sometimes not. I’ve just
   tested it with debug on, but everything ran smoothly. Seems to be a minor issue
   anyway.
 * Thanks, Mike

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 * Last reply from: [mkj2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkj2/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warnung-illegal-string-offset-tag/#post-9411209)
 * Status: resolved