Title: Backup Writable Issues
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Backup Writable Issues

 *  [mschuchnan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mschuchnan/)
 * (@mschuchnan)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-writable-issues/)
 * I’m now getting the following messages when trying to backup. I haven’t changed
   anything on my server, but did go in and set directories to 755. I didn’t have
   a /tmp/ under wp-content, but created one because I saw some posts about this,
   never had one before and use to work. Any ideas? THanks!
 * WARNING: Your backup directory is NOT writable! We cannot create the backup files.
   
   You can try to correct this problem by using your FTP client to delete and then
   re-create the backup directory: /tmp/
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-db-backup/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-db-backup/)

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 *  Thread Starter [mschuchnan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mschuchnan/)
 * (@mschuchnan)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-writable-issues/#post-7233015)
 * I’m having the exact same issue, no resolutions so far. I’ve tried to reinstall
   the plug-in, deactive and reactivate and setting the directories to 777. Any 
   ideas?

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