What I want to do is download the backup file to my computer once a day. Then I would like to use my online backup program to backup the backup file.
Everything appeared fine when I clicked Backup: tables loaded in, process completed OK. But then nothing appeared to happen. So I clicked on the backup link at the bottom of the screen, and I got the name of the file, with .gz tacked on, but with the message "file not found".
A search of my computer did not find any file with extension .gz which varified the "file not found".
But I do not want a .gz file and that kind of compression. In fact I don't want any compression at all. Why can't the backup file simply end in .sql?
Here's why the plugin uses gzipping: most people who use this plugin are on a shared host and would use PHPMyAdmin to restore their database. Shared hosts often cap file upload sizes to a few megabytes, so many people with a decent sized database wouldn't be able to upload the file were it not compressed.
If you don't want your files zipped, change line 53 of the plugin from return function_exists('gzopen'); to return false;
I remember going through this once before - figuring out how to restore. You have to import it into the database in phpMyAdmin.
What would be really useful is to have a way to store the phpMyAdmin URI and then to put a link on the admin page. Another thing that would be really useful would be to support zip since Windows supports that format natively.
What I want to do is download the backup file to my computer once a day. Then I would like to use my online backup program to backup the backup file.
Everything appeared fine when I clicked Backup: tables loaded in, process completed OK. But then nothing appeared to happen. So I clicked on the backup link at the bottom of the screen, and I got the name of the file, with .gz tacked on, but with the message "file not found".
A search of my computer did not find any file with extension .gz which varified the "file not found".
But I do not want a .gz file and that kind of compression. In fact I don't want any compression at all. Why can't the backup file simply end in .sql?
Hello mard,
Here's why the plugin uses gzipping: most people who use this plugin are on a shared host and would use PHPMyAdmin to restore their database. Shared hosts often cap file upload sizes to a few megabytes, so many people with a decent sized database wouldn't be able to upload the file were it not compressed.
If you don't want your files zipped, change line 53 of the plugin from
return function_exists('gzopen');toreturn false;Hello,
I think that this is very useful information, but I am wondering: could this be incorporated in a future upgrade as a switch on the Admin panel?
I ask because I have also been having problems which may be related to gzip. I will addthem to another thread in a moment :)
Cheers
Aren't GZ files for Unix?
I'm at Yahoo and using WP 2.0.2 with wp-data-backup version 1.7. I d/led but can't use wp-data-backup version 2.1.2 with that old WP version.
How do I use the GZ file on a Windows platform?
I remember going through this once before - figuring out how to restore. You have to import it into the database in phpMyAdmin.
What would be really useful is to have a way to store the phpMyAdmin URI and then to put a link on the admin page. Another thing that would be really useful would be to support zip since Windows supports that format natively.
Plugin works well, though.
skeezix, google GZ, gzip, or gunzip for Windows and you'll find plenty of free, open-source ways to extract GZ files.
But DavidPotter is right: the main way to restore this database for people who use this plugin is phpMyAdmin, which accepts gzipped files.
In fact, gzipping is often a requirement, as once unzipped the file would exceed a typical shared-host's upload file-size limits.
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