Title: ERROR: Cannot create backup archive correctly. Aborting creation.
Last modified: January 30, 2018

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# ERROR: Cannot create backup archive correctly. Aborting creation.

 *  Resolved [designrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designrox/)
 * (@designrox)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-cannot-create-backup-archive-correctly-aborting-creation-2/)
 * I was trying to backup my site and got this error: ERROR: Cannot create backup
   archive correctly. Aborting creation.
 * This is what was happening when that happened: Compressing files as PclZip. Please
   be patient, this may take a moment.
 * And when I looked at the working log this was the error that appeared: [30-Jan-
   2018 01:32:05] ERROR: PclZip archive add error: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) :
   Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
 * Please help
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by [designrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designrox/).

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 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-cannot-create-backup-archive-correctly-aborting-creation-2/#post-9922254)
 * [@designrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designrox/)
    I think you have
   a problem with Zip extension, could you please try using another archive extension
   like Gzip or Tar? Hope that helps 🙂
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-cannot-create-backup-archive-correctly-aborting-creation-2/#post-9968407)
 * [@designrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designrox/)
 * since we haven’t heard back from you, I’m going to mark it as resolved.
    If you’re
   still having problems, feel free to let us know ;),
 * Btw, If you find BackWPUp is useful for you, we would really appreciate if you
   leave a positive review and rating.
    This would encourage us to develop new free
   features and provide free support 😀 [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/reviews/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/reviews/)

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