Title: Redirection causing issue with backups
Last modified: August 25, 2017

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# Redirection causing issue with backups

 *  [jonathanlooi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanlooi/)
 * (@jonathanlooi)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-causing-issue-with-backups/)
 * Hi – first off, I’m a big fan of the Redirection plug in and have been using 
   it for almost two years.
 * About a month ago, I started having an issue with it though. I have been unable
   to backup my website because it seems that the redirection plugin is interfering.
   The error message stated “Error: A database query has failed.” and then mentioned“
   wp_redirection_404.MYD”
 * Here are two screenshots of the error messages I’m getting on cPanel and the 
   BackUpWordPress plugin: [http://imgur.com/a/DZWNf](http://imgur.com/a/DZWNf)
 * Any advice would be appreciated.

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-causing-issue-with-backups/#post-9443176)
 * I don’t think this is caused by Redirection itself, but it seems like something
   has gone wrong with your MySQL table for the 404 log. You may need to repair 
   the table through MySQL.
 * If that doesn’t help then you may need to export data from Redirection (export
   as JSON from the import/export page), then from the settings page press the red
   delete button and then reactivate the plugin. This will delete and recreate the
   tables. You can then re-import the JSON file to continue.

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 * Last reply from: [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-causing-issue-with-backups/#post-9443176)
 * Status: not resolved