Title: Error creating Backup for Migration
Last modified: November 1, 2023

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# Error creating Backup for Migration

 *  Resolved [dmanjit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmanjit/)
 * (@dmanjit)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-creating-backup-for-migration/)
 * My Migration back up failed at 100% with DEBUG CODE:BMI-QOtsE5iT-36298
    -  This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by [dmanjit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmanjit/).
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 *  Plugin Author [iClyde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iclyde/)
 * (@iclyde)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-creating-backup-for-migration/#post-17168270)
 * Hi [@dmanjit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmanjit/)
 * Seems like the backup failed because something disabled our plugin in the meanwhile
   of creation the backup.
 * Or your firewall or third party software blocked WP Ajax calls.
   Or you don’t 
   have enough space for the backup.
 * My assumption is that free space returned from the server, does not give real
   value.
 * Basing on the output you received, it actually may be the first or last case.
   
   Because of that it may be not enough space to write final batches to the ZIP 
   file.
 * To confirm that could you please perform these steps:
    1. Make one backup:
       – Without database– With Plugins+Themes+Other files in wp-content
       directory only
    2. If it succeeds download that backup to your PC and remove it from server, then
       make second backup:
       – Exclude database as well– With Uploads directory only
    3. Same thing there, download it and remove from server and make last third backup:
       –
       With database only– Without any files included
 * If these three will success, you can restore them one by one and the same order,
   database at the end.
 * With that approach the restoration or migration will be still valid, but I hope
   now to fit into your available disk space.
 * I hope that your Uploads directory takes less than 50% of entire size, then it
   should be completely fine, if my assumption is right.
 * Hopefully when you move to more responsive server, you won’t face any issues.
 * Let me know if that worked 🙂
   Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [iClyde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iclyde/)
 * (@iclyde)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-creating-backup-for-migration/#post-17186573)
 * As we didn’t hear any reply in last days.
   I can assume that you resolved the 
   issue.
 * Feel free to open new topic if I am wrong!
   Thank you 🙂

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-creating-backup-for-migration/#post-17186573)
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