Title: PHP Parse error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# PHP Parse error

 *  Resolved [joeventures](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeventures/)
 * (@joeventures)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-error-4/)
 * Hey… I’m now getting an odd error during the full backup. Below is an excerpt
   from the log:
 *     ```
       [24-Mar-2013 03:00:20] 1. Trying to make a list of folders to back up …
       [24-Mar-2013 03:00:50] 3397 folders to back up.
       [24-Mar-2013 02:00:50 America/Chicago] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/c4atl/public_html/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-d410e-temp/backwpup-0cd149-folders.php on line 185
       [24-Mar-2013 03:00:50] ERROR: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING
       [24-Mar-2013 03:00:50] Script stopped! Will start again.
       [24-Mar-2013 02:00:51 America/Chicago] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/c4atl/public_html/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-d410e-temp/backwpup-0cd149-folders.php on line 185
       [24-Mar-2013 03:00:51] ERROR: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING
       ```
   
 * The archive format I’m using is Tar GZip. Any ideas what might be happening?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  Thread Starter [joeventures](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeventures/)
 * (@joeventures)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-error-4/#post-3594916)
 * This is still happening. Any ideas what might be happening?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-error-4/#post-3594920)
 * Improved in next update.
 * did you have filenames with a ‘ in it?
 *  Thread Starter [joeventures](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeventures/)
 * (@joeventures)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-error-4/#post-3594927)
 * Thanks, Daniel!
 * It took me a little while to find it before I discovered:
 * `find -name "*'*"`
 * which sped up my search 🙂
 * I found one file that has multiple apostrophes in the name. Bad news is that 
   it was generated by my caching plugin, so I wouldn’t be comfortable deleting 
   it. I’ll be on the lookout for the next update. Thanks again!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-parse-error-4/#post-3594929)
 * I have fixed the problem. comes with next update.
 * I think it is better to exclude cache files from backup.

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