Title: Backup Issue
Last modified: December 31, 2016

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# Backup Issue

 *  Resolved [Talisman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talisman/)
 * (@talisman)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-issue/)
 * I use this plugin on various sites and have them all set up to automatically 
   email a backup periodically. I have had no problems with the exception of one
   site. The emailed attachment always turns up as an SQL file and not a ZIP file
   like all the others. Any suggestions?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-issue/#post-8606448)
 * Can you share the difference between this site that is not working and your other
   sites? If you are having some issues with this site then it could be either a
   plugin causing this issue or some configuration in the Website or server settings.
 *  [Česlav Przywara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chesio/)
 * (@chesio)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-issue/#post-8613764)
 * Hi [@talisman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talisman/),
 * Database backup files are zipped only if there is [ZIP extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.zip.php)
   enabled in PHP, so if you are getting plain sql files by email, most likely that
   website has this extension disabled.
 * You can find whether this extension is enabled in output of [phpinfo](http://php.net/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php)
   or you can create a dummy PHP file with `class_exists( 'ZipArchive' )` check –
   this is what actually AIOWPSF plugin does. For example:
 *     ```
       <?php
       echo class_exists( 'ZipArchive' ) ? 'ZIP extension seems enabled' : 'ZIP extension seems disabled';
       ```
   
 * Cheers,
    Česlav
 *  Thread Starter [Talisman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talisman/)
 * (@talisman)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-issue/#post-8614221)
 * Thanks Česlav. The ZipArchive comes back as not enabled.

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## Tags

 * [email](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/email/)
 * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/)
 * [zip](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/zip/)

 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Talisman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talisman/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-issue/#post-8614221)
 * Status: resolved