Title: WP-DB-Backup Problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WP-DB-Backup Problems

 *  Resolved [slshimerdla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slshimerdla/)
 * (@slshimerdla)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-db-backup-problems/)
 * So, I have the whole thing set up. It is detecting the locations for mysql and
   mysqldump no problem. It is writing to the directory no problem. It’s actually
   creating files.
 * Here’s the problem, though. When I view those files, the ONLY content to them
   is the plugin’s header area:
 *     ```
       mysqldump  Ver 8.23 Distrib 3.23.58, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)
       By Igor Romanenko, Monty, Jani & Sinisa
       This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
       and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
   
       ...etc...
       ```
   
 * And it stops after this line:
 *     ```
       Possible variables for option --set-variable (-O) are:
       max_allowed_packet    current value: 25165824
       net_buffer_length     current value: 1047551
       ```
   
 * The backup SQL files (within wp-content/backup-db/)are all the same size, and
   are only 5.5KB each time.
 * What on earth could be going wrong here? Is there a second file somewhere that
   is storing more data? The entire plugin looks like it’s working – everything 
   says it’s fine everywhere that I look. If I hadn’t looked at the SQL files myself
   to know better, I’d think it was working fine.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [slshimerdla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slshimerdla/)
 * (@slshimerdla)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-db-backup-problems/#post-862382)
 * Okay, you know… I don’t think that’s the plugin’s header area, now that I’m reading
   it. I just assumed it was the plugin header, and that the content would be coming
   after it. But, it looks to be information on mysqldump. Which doesn’t make ANY
   sense to me, about why it would be showing that. I may have to head on over to
   the developer’s website and see if I can’t get some info from there.
 * Still, if anyone has a clue in the meantime, please feel free to enlighten me!
 * This site is being hosted through GoDaddy (ugh), and they’ve disallowed the use
   of cron jobs directly through their cron jobs interface to do mysqldump backups.
   They tell me in that using PHP to do a backup should still work, though, which
   is why I’m using this plugin. Maybe the problem is with GoDaddy somewhere, and
   they were wrong about the access, and this is what I get when it doesn’t work?
 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-db-backup-problems/#post-862396)
 * Just for the sake of accuracy: this thread is _not_ talking about the [WP-DB-Backup plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/)
   but some other backup plugin.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-db-backup-problems/#post-862396)
 * Status: resolved

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