{"id":3863702,"date":"2013-06-21T15:59:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/it-almost-worked-perfectly\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T02:13:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T02:13:28","slug":"it-almost-worked-perfectly","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/it-almost-worked-perfectly\/","title":{"rendered":"It almost worked perfectly…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…but it didn’t include the plug-ins directory in the backup. <\/p>\n

I was testing this in a new installation to see if I wanted to use it for backup and restore, and backed up by ftp to a different subdomain. When I then restored in that subdomain, I ended up with a fatal error, which tracked to the entire plugins directory being missing. <\/p>\n

Once I copied in that subdirectory from the site I had backed up, all was good.<\/p>\n

Any idea what might cause one directory to go missing like that? Is it possible that I didn’t wait long enough for the backup? I did notice that a message of “49 seconds remaining” lasted for about 10 minutes — long after the tar.gz file appeared on the server — but in the logs, my backup is marked as ok.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/backwpup\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3863702","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/3863702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/3863702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}