Troubleshooting
Backup error: An exception has occurred. class:Google_Service_Exception;msg:{ \”error\”: { \”errors\”: [ { \”domain\”: \”global\”, \”reason\”: \”storageQuotaExceeded\”, \”message\”: \”The user\’s Drive storage quota has been exceeded.\” } ]
The issue occurred due to insufficient Google Drive space. Please free up Google Drive and make sure that there is enough Google Drive space to store backups.
Site migration failed because of the receiving site can’t receive the oversized data chunk during auto-migration.
In this case, go to WordPress admin dashboard of target site > WPvivid plugin > Settings > Advanced settings and decrease the value of 'Chunk size' to 512 KB and save changes. Then perform an auto-migration task again. Alternatively, you can migrate your...
Get error Quota limited reached when backing up to Microsoft OneDrive
The issue is usually caused by insufficient OneDrive space. Please check your OneDrive space and make sure it is sufficient for storing the backup.
Get error Failed to add zip files. status string when making a backup
The error 'Backup the file ends with an error Failed to add zip files. status string' is usually caused by insufficient disk space. Please check the disk space. Generally, the free disk space should be at least twice the size of the backup. Also, in shared hosting,...
Get the error PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature during migration
This error can occur during a restoration or migration process. When the error occurs, our plugin can not unzip your backup. Because the backup is either incomplete or corrupted. This may happened during the process of downloading/transferring the backup file. A...
Why do I get the error “cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10001/30000 milliseconds with 0 out of 0 bytes received” when backing up to pCloud?
This error means uploading the backup to pCloud timed out, which is usually caused by a network connection failure between your web hosting server and the cloud storage provider’s server. The failure can be on either end, for example, an outage of the cloud storage...
Get ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS (abc.com has redirected you too many times) when connecting cloud storage
This error is usually caused by redirect plugins, e.g., Really Simple SSL plugin, on your website which has prevented the redirection to the site. You can try to temporarily deactivate the redirect plugin, then try it again. Normally the redirect plugin should have...
Restore failed, Error Info:An exception has occurred. class: PDOException;msg: SQLSTATE[42000]
The full error message is like: “Oops, The restoration seems to have encountered a problem:( Please adjust the advanced settings before restoring and retry. Read more… Error Info:An exception has occurred. class: PDOException;msg: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or...
Backup/Migration is slow
Here are two main causes of a slow backup process: 1. The disk I/O of the web hosting is slow. We have noticed that the disk IO of many web hosting is only 1MB/s, then theoretically backing up a 100MB website would require at least 300s. You can check the disk I/O of...
Backup size is different from the website size
During the backup process, our plugin will compress your website data into zip files to save storage space. So it is normal that your website is, for example, 5 GB(the calculation result on WPvivid backup page) while the backup will be only 1GB. You can verify a...
Get Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page after migration
It can be because on your target site, there were both index.html and index.php after the restoration. By default, WordPress always reads the index.php, and a default WordPress install does not have the index.html file. The problem is that the target website reads...
Get error Internal Server Error 500 on a subdomain staging site
First make sure to add https(to be the same as your live site) to the subdomain e.g., dev.yourdomain.com when creating the subdomain or the staging site. If the problem still persists, please contact us.
Get cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate when using auto migration
The error is related to SSL certification. Please make sure you have correctly configured SSL certifications for the source and target sites. Here is a thread for how to fix the issue:...
Cloud storage authentication is unsuccessful
Please temporarily deactivate your firewall plugin, then authenticate your cloud storage again.
The plugin interface messed up after white label is enabled
It is because the white label name included special characters. The white label name can contain numbers, lowercase/uppercase letters, underscores and spaces only. Please rename white label name without any special characters.
Get error PCLZIP_ERR_READ_OPEN_FAIL (-2) : Unable to open archive ‘part002.zip’ in wb mode when creating a backup
The error is caused by insufficient server disk space. To fix it, check and make sure that the available disk space of the web hosting account is at least twice the size of the website.
Get PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4) : File’/home/example.com/ wp-content/uploads/’ does not exists when creating a backup
1. Please manually upload an image to Media library of your site. Then try to backup again. 2. If the problem occurred after a site migration, the issue might be due to the Media path is set incorrectly and still refers to the old website. So, you need to update the...
Unable to cancel a backup progress
Generally, the problem occurs while WP Cron might not be working properly. Please install WP Crontrol plugin to check your WP Cron system and make sure that it works correctly. Additionally, you can use phpMyAdmin to access your database > wp_options >...
Get error ‘The plugin wpvivid-backup-pro/wpvivid-backup-pro.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist’ after migration
This error occurs because there is WPvivid pro activation information in the database of the backup, indicating that you had once activated WPvivid pro on the site where the backup was made, but there is no WPvivid pro plugin folder in the backup, also there is no...
Get error ‘The curl extension is not detected. Please install the extension first.’ when making a backup
This error occurs because the PHP curl extension is required. So, please install the curl extension first then try it again.
Get 503 Service Unavailable error from time to time after migration
This error is due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems with your web hosting server. Therefore, we recommend that you check whether the server resources of the site are sufficient, such as disk space and memory.
Get error: Login failed. The connection has timed out. Please try again later. when adding FTP storage
It can be because you are using a custom port for the FTP server, in that case, make sure the custom FTP port is allowed by the hosting provider.
Get 404 error when logging to the staging site
Here are few possible causes and solutions to the problem: 1. The site is hosted on WordPress.com WordPress.com is different from WordPress.org self-hosted sites configuration, for example, the files and folders structure. And our plugin is developed based on the...
When creating a backup it breaks into several parts
That is because by default, our plugin splits a backup to multiple parts(200MB for each) to increase backup success rate, especially for websites with shared web hosting. However, you do have the option to finally get a single backup file by changing the following...
Backup error: http error, error code:403, task id: wpvivid-6149c85559xxx
The 403 error always means the access to the requested resource is forbidden, our guess is that there can be a firewall(security) on your target site that is blocking the transfer. In that case, the Manual transfer option is recommended.
No backups show up when scanning the Migration folder
It is usually because you have enabled WPvivid white label option on the source site,which has changed the wpvivid slug in the backup file name, causing the backup was not identified by the plugin. The current solution is to enable the white label(using the same brand...
PHP Fatal error: Cannot declare class WPvivid_Staging_Copy_DB, because the name is already in use when updating WPvivid Backup plugin
It is because you are still using a pretty old version of WPvivid Pro, which is probably causing the problem. So, it is recommended that you delete it and install the latest version of the Pro plugin(you can always download the latest version of the pro version from...
Get SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0 or 2 on the plugin pages
The JSON error is usually a parsing error caused by unparseable content in the json result returned by the server after sending an ajax request, it is actually an error with the website itself rather than the plugin. When the error occurs, you can use the browser’s...
Get Upload error, error code: -200, HTTP Error when uploading backup files
This error is usually caused by security settings on the site, or the sever side, which are blocking the file uploading. To solve the issue, please check and change the relevant security settings on the site or the server to allow the uploading. Alternatively, you can...
Get PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4) : Missing archive file. ‘/var/www/example.com/wp-content/plugins/wpvivid-backup-pro/addons2/backup_pro/wpvivid-backup-pro-all-in-one.zip’ when trying to install WPvivid Backup Pro Addon
Make sure you have assigned 755 permissions to all your WordPress folders and files. After that, please install and activate the pro version again.