Title: Doesn't backup database
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Doesn't backup database

 *  [Greybox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greybox/)
 * (@greybox)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-backup-database/)
 * I like the simplicity of this plugin, looks exactly what I wanted, but it doesn’t
   work properly: my db-backup.sql is always empty (zero length file). Other files
   look ok.

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 *  [John Peden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcpeden/)
 * (@jcpeden)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-backup-database/#post-7775288)
 * I assume you’re not getting an error message when you run the backup process?

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