Title: [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Database file empty
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Database file empty

 *  [Knut Sparhell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knutsp/)
 * (@knutsp)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-database-file-empty/)
 * All files are backup up and zipped, but the database (`.sql`) file is empty (
   zero bytes). This happens on some, but not all sites.
 * This plugin could do with a check that cehcks if the database export file really
   contains data, and if not, at lease declare an error.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-database-file-empty/#post-2631837)
 * Hi Knut,
 * Could you try adding the following to your wp-config.php on one of the sites 
   with a blank database file.
 * define( ‘HMBKP_MYSQLDUMP_PATH’, false );
 * That will force the backup process to use the php fallback for the database dump,
   I’m interested to see if that is able to backup your database.
 * Once you’ve done that, re-run the backup to see if the database is still blank.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-database-file-empty/#post-2631837)
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