Something is not working with the backup.module. I receive no errors (at least not in the webpage, don't know where the module would write other errors), but after downloading a .tgz file it turns out to only be 8kB and cannot be opened bij WinRAR or "tar zxvf".

The following error is returned:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Can you tell me where to locate the problem? The programs tar, mysql and gzip are all in the path.

Thank you,

Harro

p.s. I accidentally found it by wanting to look inside the archive, which files were actually backed-up... So I hope this is just an issue with me and not with others that just don't know it yet!

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dmuth commented

Try opening the file in a text editor. I would not be surprised if an error was generated and it was written to a file.

I have some plans in the works for backup 5.0 to avoid this sort of problem.

-- Doug

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harro commented

Interesting suggestion! It turned out that there was HTML inside - "Page not found" error... very odd... I will have to investigate further why the backup script would generate sucha page!

Thanks for the suggestion!

Harro

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dmuth commented

Heh, it's not the first time such a thing has happened to me while doing web development. (but it is the first time for backup, which has me concerned)

I'll keep this bug open for the time being in case there is more to add. Once I deploy a 5.x version of this module, I'll close out this bug, as my intention is to change the file download mechanism. (See http://drupal.org/node/120593 for tracking of 5.x development)

Cheers,

-- Doug

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dmuth commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing this one out since I have a different mechanism for downloading the file in Drupal 5.