Title: [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] ZIP Issues / sql backup empty
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] ZIP Issues / sql backup empty

 *  [h34dbanger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/h34dbanger/)
 * (@h34dbanger)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-zip-issues-sql-backup-empty/)
 * Hi there!
 * I just installed BackUpWordPress 1.6.3 on WP 3.3 on an Apache environment. I 
   tried the manual back up now. Result:
 *     ```
       BackUpWordPress detected issues with your last backup.Dismiss
   
       zip: The backup file was not created
       ```
   
 * However, the zip-archive shows up in the table, can be downloaded and unpacked.
   So, first question:
 * 1. What’s this? Is everything ok and this is a wrong error message?
 * Secondly, and more importantly, however: The SQL-file is 0 Bytes and empty. This
   is not good. OFC i need the mysql backup. Any pointers? 🙁
 * Thank you so much for your support!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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