TheBigGroundhog

The symptoms of my problem were exactly the same as everyone else, but my solution was completely different.

Shortly after setting up the blog I moved the blog to a different directory (from /testblog to /blog). While everything else with WordPress worked fine, the folder under Settings | Media was still pointing to the old /testblog folder and the Media files were being uploaded to this directory, but the rest of WordPress wasn’t using that directory.

Once I moved the Media files back into the /blog folder tree and updated the Settings | Media to point to the /blog folder as well, everything started working again.

Okay, I think we’re getting closer. Here are some of my recent changes:

1. Upgraded to the latest PHP version for Windows from the “Microsoft Web Platform Installer 3.0”. This seemed to make the backup complete, but caused multiple zip files to be created.

2. Excluded the backups folder per comment by Segfaultcoredump. With Windows you have to put the full path to the directory so we have: c:/inetpub/wwwroot/wp-content/backups

3. Install and use 7zip to test the created zip file. Windows kept considering the zip file to be corrupted (when you opened the zip file it was empty). When viewing from 7Zip the first directory is “C:” (with the colon) that I’m guessing the regular Windows zip tool doesn’t like.

I’m going to do some more testing and turn on database backups again for an automatic backup.

I updated to version 1.5.1 and the manual full backup still hangs on “Creating Zip Archive”. As a test, I did a database only backup and that successfully worked, then tried to do a file only backup and that is where the backup is hanging.

Are there more detailed logs anywhere to find out where it is getting stuck?

I checked the automatically created ZIP files and they are corrupted and I’m not able to open them up.

I also upgraded to version 1.5 but still run into the same “Creating Zip Archive” prompt on a manual backup. I will check later to see if the automatic backups run successfully (the ZIP files were corrupted before).

I’m running WordPress 3.2.1 on Windows Server 2008 (64-bit), PHP 5.2.9-1, and MySQL Server 5.1.

Are there any other log files that would help to troubleshoot this?

I just tried again with Firefox 8.0.1 and I still get the spinning “Creating Zip Archive”. The nightly backups get created, but the zip files that end up getting created are corrupt and unusable.