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1:05 am
March 30, 2013
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I am getting the WordPress 3.5.1 error message "Unable to read the database backup" when I try to clone my local WordPress development site to my Internet serve. Why??
2:02 pm
September 26, 2010
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Check if the backup archive size matches the original one, you might have downloaded an incomplete backup archive.
5:01 pm
March 30, 2013
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I figured out the problem. I had created an empty mySQL database on the hosted server as instructed in the XCloner User Manual. This was the first time I was uploading SQL data from my local laptop development environment to my hosted mySQL database. I had checked the "Skip files restore" checkbox thinking that I would import only my development SQL into my hosted SQL database (because that was where I was having trouble; file uploading was working fine). After much reading I discovered that the /administrator/backups folder had to be uploaded to the hosted server before a SQL database import would work. This is because the development SQL database backup resides in this directory. If this directory wasn't present on the hosted server there wouldn't be a SQL database available to import into my empty hosted mySQL database.
I configured the XCloner installation to install BOTH the SQL database and the WordPress files at the same time. I made sure that the "Skip files restore" was UNCHECKED. Everything worked like a charm. The files uploaded then the SQL was imported into the hosted SQL database.
Bill Vallance
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