Title: Zip issues — no doubt
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Zip issues — no doubt

 *  [mrkingid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrkingid/)
 * (@mrkingid)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/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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 * Last reply from: [mrkingid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrkingid/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zip-issues-no-doubt/)
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