Title: Incompatible to PHP 5.2
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Incompatible to PHP 5.2

 *  [Rodrigo Vargas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roimvargas/)
 * (@roimvargas)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incompatible-to-php-52/)
 * After installing the latest version all my backup jobs stopped working.
    The 
   log show me “Strict Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference” and
   the job doesn’t finish, even setting to save file as Tar.

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