I want open backup file .wpress

Hi bogdandin,

Can you let us know why you need to open it for?

Best,

Hi, I would also like to know how to open the .wpress file. I downloaded a backup of a site I’m recreating and I really only needed the plugins from it. I don’t have FTP access, only full admin access. They have this plugin installed and the backup file was only 100MB over the limit, I’d rather not spend money just to get a few files only once.

Please let me know if it’s possible to open the file just to extract the plugin files.

Thanks

Ergodyne,

We have a tool written that will let you do that. You can take a look at https://github.com/yani-/wpress.
It will take a few days to have it packages as an application though.

I will look, some time not import database… him delete database but not import database…

I need something like this also. I keep hanging on restoring database and have tried the dev version, have tried uploading to the backup folder and restoring a backup and it’s the same thing every time.
The old site is gone so I cannot use an older version to export it again and then import with the older version.
I downloaded this wp master thing and have no idea what I am supposed to do with it.

Hi kyledoesit,

Do you mind writing to us at support at servmask.com?
I will be happy to convert the file back to .zip to be compatible with the old version for you.

alright, thank you!

You are welcome, kyledoesit!

Pim, I’m having the same problem. Can you send me a way to download the application you developed to open the .wpress file?

Hi julio88,

I am extracting the files for you and will get back to you over the support ticket.

Is there a reason that there isn’t a simple zip export format?

Hi ekazda,

So far, we have released 3 major series of the plugin: 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x
We learn something new with each major version about our users and the hosting providers out there.

Series 1.x and 2.x were archiving contents using .zip. We found the following problems when using .zip that we consider blockers thus we dropped .zip:
1. .Zip has a limitation of 4GB meaning that if we try to store a file of over 4GB or the archive size is over 4GB, we will not be able to archive the website properly – since we switched to .wpress format, we were able to export websites as big as 17GB.
2. Compressing data takes a lot of processing power – shared hosting providers will kill a process that is using a lot of processing power – we had our plugin removed because of this reason on hosting providers like GoDaddy.
3. Compressing data takes a lot of time – maximum time a script can execute is limited to 30seconds on 85% of all hosting providers. A website with size of 300MB combined with shared hosting provider’s processing speed takes about 2 minutes to process – lots of users ended up with either corrupted archives or no archives.

Our solution, .wpress, is more than 10 times faster when archiving files and folders, the only downsize is that the file produced is bigger compared to .zip.

Good morning. I also need to pull certain things from a .wpress file. I visited the github files, but I am not sure how to use them. I switched hosts, and I need to rebuild my site. Can you help?

Thanks.

Hi jlanaux,

Yes, I will be happy to convert it back to .zip for you if you reach out to me at support at servmask.com

Thank you!

Hi,

I was facing the same issue of having to extract wpress files locally, so I created a tiny Windows commandline utility (.exe file) using your golang code.

So , in case some one else needs to extract their wpress files they can use this tool. I’ve also added a Readme with very simple instructions on how to use it : https://github.com/fifthsegment/Wpress-Extractor

Regards