Title: Error while writing file
Last modified: June 14, 2017

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# Error while writing file

 *  Resolved [donnajanke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnajanke/)
 * (@donnajanke)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-writing-file/)
 * After updating to WordPress 4.8 and the latest version of BackWPup, backup of
   the database fails. After connecting to to local database, the job gets an ERROR:
   Error while writing file. After 6 such tries and errors, the job aborts.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Brandon Olivares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cocreation/)
 * (@cocreation)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-writing-file/#post-9231077)
 * Hi [@donnajanke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnajanke/), make sure 
   your file permissions weren’t altered while upgrading. wp-content/uploads should
   be writable, as well as all directories underneath that.
 *  Thread Starter [donnajanke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnajanke/)
 * (@donnajanke)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-writing-file/#post-9232602)
 * I ran the backup again today and it worked. I always select tar GZip for archive
   format. In the jobs which failed, I hadn’t selected any specific compression 
   under the db option. Today I did and selected GZip compression under database.
   I don’t know if that made a difference or not. I had also alerted my host of 
   the issue and it is possible he noticed the permission issue and corrected it.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Brandon Olivares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cocreation/)
 * (@cocreation)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-writing-file/#post-9235785)
 * Hi [@donnajanke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnajanke/), I’m very glad
   your issue was resolved. 🙂 Feel free to let us know if you need anything else.
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 * Last reply from: [Brandon Olivares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cocreation/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-writing-file/#post-9235785)
 * Status: resolved