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Backup Start Path Check: Directory is not readable (/)
February 9, 2011
6:15 pm
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With the path you suggested, once i click SAVe it still defaults back to "/"

 

Using PHP 5.2.5 it says in the INFO area.  Is there another version/area i should look into?  Im using godaddy.com hosting.

February 9, 2011
7:00 pm
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K, i will need to look more into this, unfortunatelly our windows test machine is a Win 7 with WAMP, i am guessing you are running IIS as server?

 

For now, to fix the issue, you can edit the wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/common.php file and look for this line

 

$_CONFIG['backup_path'] = realpath($_CONFIG['backup_path'])."/";

 

replace it(comment) with

 

#$_CONFIG['backup_path'] = realpath($_CONFIG['backup_path'])."/";

 

Hope it helps! Ovidiu

February 10, 2011
3:59 pm
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Yeah, IIS server.  I've been having a lot of issues on the wnidows servers with godaddy.com and was reading that maybe I should switch it to a Linux server, but was unsure how the whole process would work and if my site would still work afterwords.

 

So what exactly will commenting it out let me do?  Will I be able to do complete site backups still?

 

Thanks a lot for all your help. 🙂

February 10, 2011
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Commenting that option should fix the path issue on your server, and you will be able to generate proper backups. 

 

Cheers, Ovidiu

February 10, 2011
7:57 pm
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It worked!   Kind of :/

 

It accepted that path and now I can actually start to generate the backup where i can select directories for it to include, but now theres a new problem...  Now it doesnt recognize the administrators/backup folder.

 

I've attatched 2 more SS's to show...

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You can see here it finds the administrator\backups\ folder and it IS writeable, but then we click back to the main window...

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Just for good measures I created the backup folder in both locations hoping it would work... "D:/Hosting/2640060/HTML/xclone/administrator/backups"

"D:/Hosting/2640060/HTML/administrator/backups"

 

And both are writeable.

February 10, 2011
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Maybe this should be a new topic, I'm not sure.  How do I change the BackUp file from unwritable to writable?  Thanks!

February 10, 2011
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Right, forgot there is another realpath in the common.php file, so locate this line

 

$_CONFIG['backups_dir'] = realpath($_CONFIG['backup_path'])."/administrator/backups";

 

and replace it with

 

$_CONFIG['backups_dir'] = $_CONFIG['backup_path']."/administrator/backups";

 

that should help

 

Ovidiu

February 10, 2011
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Hi! Thanks for your prompt reply.  I am new to this so I don't know where to find this common.php file.  Constance

BTW - when I was checking out various plugins I chose xCloner because you are awesome when it comes to answering questions.  Most of the other plugins don't seem to ever answer questions posted by their users.  Thanks again!

February 10, 2011
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So I found the commom.php file and I replaced it like you suggested but it still does not work.  The tutorial that you tweeted about said it should read:

D:/my website/wordpress/administrator/backups

Is this correct?

February 11, 2011
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Yes, in your case it should be D:/Hosting/2640060/html/administrator/backups , could you post a screenshot of the XCloner Info tab you see now?

 

Ovidiu

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