Title: Error retrieving JSON data from server. Parsererror — SyntaxError
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error retrieving JSON data from server. Parsererror — SyntaxError

 *  [pvanbavel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pvanbavel/)
 * (@pvanbavel)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-retrieving-json-data-from-server-parsererror-syntaxerror/)
 * Trying to make the very first back-up!!
 * Initializing backup…
 * Backup /sites/lovetomeetyou.eu/www/administrator/backups/backup_2014-04-23_10-
   19_lovetomeetyou.eu-sql-drop.tar created, we may continue!
 * Database backup…
 * There was an error retrieving the JSON data from the server, try again or contact
   the developers!
 * Details: parsererror — SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
 * JSON url: admin-ajax.php?action=json_return&task=recurse_database&nohtml=1&dbbackup_comp
   =&dbbackup_drop=1
 * Response body:
    Notice: Undefined index: page in /sites/lovetomeetyou.eu/www/
   wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/xcloner.php on line 122 {“newDump”:
   1,”tableName”:”Copy_ltmy_options”,”databaseName”:”lovetomeetyou_eu_WPdatin”,”
   totalRecords”:”0″,”startAtLine”:2,”startAtRecord”:0,”dumpfile”:”\/sites\/lovetomeetyou.
   eu\/www\/administrator\/backups\/database-sql.sql”,”dbbackup_comp”:””,”dbbackup_drop”:”
   1″}parsererror — SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
 * JSON url: admin-ajax.php?action=json_return&task=recurse_database&nohtml=1&dbbackup_comp
   =&dbbackup_drop=1
 * Response body:
    Notice: Undefined index: page in /sites/lovetomeetyou.eu/www/
   wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/xcloner.php on line 122 {“server_time”:
   1398273647}parsererror — SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
 * JSON url: admin-ajax.php?action=json_return&task=recurse_database&nohtml=1&dbbackup_comp
   =&dbbackup_drop=1
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/)

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 *  [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-retrieving-json-data-from-server-parsererror-syntaxerror/#post-4841767)
 * Hi pvanbavel, you might like to read the following from XCloner in regards to
   JSON error.
 * > For others seeing this, the issue was caused by the “WordPress Database Backup”
   > plugin which was throwing an error for some reason.
 * Kind regards

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