WP DB Backup: Backup Directory not Writeable
WordPress Database backup is one of the default plugins that come with WordPress. It is very useful, and I use it frequently on a blog on another host. However, I’ve had a problem on with this host that I hadn’t been able to solve for months. When I tried to either save, download or email the backup, I got the following error in a Javascript popup:
The backup directory is not writeable! Please check the permissions for writing to your backup directory and try again.
The page only said this:
Creating backup file…
The backup directory is not writeable!
I was sure that the pop-up was wrong — the backup-directory was chmoded to 777 (read, write and execute for everyone). Today I noticed that the owner for the backup-directory was “80″, and not “3619″ as for every other directory. Thus I deleted it and re-created it, this time by hand through the FTP client instead letting the plugin do the job.
I tried backing the database up again, and this time it worked just fine.
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