Zip issues — no doubt

I have been pulling my freaking hair our try to get this plugin to play nice with my hostgator hosting.

Turns out the selecting ZIP has been the issue for me. Not only did it ALWAYS fail but it killed my site as well.

I selected Tar gZip as the compression method and boom.. it ran smoothly and quickly. It ran in 127 seconds with Tar gZip while the others with ZIP would run over 1500 seconds, die and try to restart.

Kicker is, I hate Tar files. 🙂 Just a preference, but at least I have a backup now and my site doesn’t get bogged down.

Not sure it will help but here is the info from my settings area.

WordPress version 3.5.1
BackWPup version 3.0.2 Get pro.
PHP version 5.3.15
MySQL version 5.5.23-55
cURL version 7.19.7
cURL SSL version NSS/3.13.1.0
Server self connect: Response Test O.K.

Server Apache
Operating System Linux
PHP SAPI cgi-fcgi

Safe Mode Off
Maximum execution time 30 seconds
Alternative WP Cron Off
Disabled WP Cron Off
CHMOD Dir 0755
Server Time 22:31
Blog Time 14:31
Blog Timezone America/Vancouver
Blog Time offset -8 hours
Blog language en-US
MySQL Client encoding utf8
Blog charset UTF-8
PHP Memory limit 256M
WP memory limit 40M
WP Maximum memory limit 256M
Memory in use 47.75 MB
Disabled PHP Functions: dl
Loaded PHP Extensions: Core, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SQLite, SimpleXML, Zend Guard Loader, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dom, ereg, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, hash, iconv, imagick, imap, intl, ionCube Loader, json, libxml, mbstring, mcrypt, mhash, mssql, mysql, mysqli, odbc, openssl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, posix, pspell, session, soap, sockets, sqlite3, standard, tidy, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib

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