Title: compression issues zip/tar
Last modified: May 14, 2019

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# compression issues zip/tar

 *  Resolved [mtm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flatpack-music/)
 * (@flatpack-music)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issues-zip-tar/)
 * i am having simultaneous issues with all forms of file compression via backwpup.
 * tar and tar.gz files are giving me the ‘file name too long’ warning as described
   [here](https://backwpup.com/docs/warning-file-name-too-long-to-be-saved/). the
   filenames in question are generated automatically when media is uploaded to the
   site, so can’t be avoided.
 * when i switch to zip files i can never get past around 70% on “Compressing files
   as ZipArchive” – it eventually leads to the following error: “ZIP archive cannot
   be closed correctly”.
 * since i can’t compress my site backups using any of the 3 options available –
   what am i advised to do?

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 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issues-zip-tar/#post-11551867)
 * Hi [@flatpack-music](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flatpack-music/)
    Could
   you please check if the server has out of disk quota? Thank you
 *  Thread Starter [mtm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flatpack-music/)
 * (@flatpack-music)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issues-zip-tar/#post-11551894)
 * hi, thanks for replying.
 * it’s not a disk quota issue – i’ve checked across several installs. this is something
   that i experience on almost all the sites i run. compressing to zip just never
   completes. tar is fine, unless there are files with long names.
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issues-zip-tar/#post-11647045)
 * Hi [@flatpack-music](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flatpack-music/)
    Sorry
   about the long delay, is it possible for you to split the one job into multiple
   smaller jobs, something like: – DB backup job – installed plugin backup job –
   wp-content backup – uploads folder backup is that help?
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issues-zip-tar/#post-11682246)
 * since this has not been responded to in a while, I’m going to mark it as resolved.
   
   If you’re still having problems, feel free to let us know. Thank you!

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

 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issues-zip-tar/#post-11682246)
 * Status: resolved