Last updated on: February 5th, 2017 You’ve probably heard it before, but if you’re an owner of a WordPress based site, you can’t underestimate the importance of keeping an up to date backup of your site (that goes for both database and files). There are two major scenarios where such backups can come handy
- When migrating to a new hosting provider – You could simply restore the website from backup at the new location.
- In case your site has been hacked and you need to restore it to a clean state.
While there are several well known backup plugins available, BackupBuddy is probably the one best known.
BackupBuddy is a comprehensive WordPress backup plugin. With BackupBuddy you can configure many backup sets such as Database only, or full backups, and specify schedule and destination. Local backups (where backup files are saved on the same server that hosts your site), and offsite backups (where the backup files are saved on a remote location such as FTP DropBox, or Google Drive) are also supported. However due to limitations on Godaddy shared hosting accounts, BackupBuddy will fail to run with the following error message
backupbuddy Failed to create a Zip Archive file – no available methods
Follow the settings shown in this video tutorial to configure the correct settings and successfully configure BackupBuddy on GoDaddy shared hosting.
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Worked for me! Thank you!
Music to my ears! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Yasaf;
I followed your video instructions and he I still get the same error while zipping up the database files.
any further thoughts?
Kind regards
Linval.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing your experience.
You should try different zipping options then.
In addition, depending on you hosting package resources, you may need to increase the php execution timeout.
Hope this helps – please keep us informed.
Yasaf.
I had an issue trying to install my backup buddy onto GoDaddy’s hosting and could not from a backup files. Have you had this issues and if so how did you fix it?
Hi Jose,
No I did not have this issue.
I placed the restore wizard main file and backup file file in the same folder (via FTP), and it worked instantly.
I would also check directory permissions.
Hope this help.
Feel free to post back if you still have issues.
All the best.
Yasaf.
I followed your video and I received this Error #437479545
Jose,
Your first comment was about restore. This one is about the backup process?
I don’t really follow. Anyway, please keep in mind I’m not an iThemes member and cannot provide technical support for your setup.
However, according to iThemes codex error starting with 4 are zip file related.
My assumption is that you have some sort of limitation on memory execution or maximum file size that results in this error.
iThemes codex can be found here – http://ithemes.com/codex/page/BackupBuddy:_Error_Codes
Hope this helps.
Yasaf