Updraft Plus failed to Restore

My front landing page looked very nice. I was trying to set up a template for product pages using plugins ShopEngine & Elementor. I saved a section and continued work. Later, I went to my site and discovered my front page totally broken. Internal pages were OK. After a brief panic, I realized I had it all backed up, most recently 4 days before, and went to Updraftplus to restore. Worked like a charm, I had to repeat things done in those 4 days. Then, abruptly, the landing page broke again, even worse. Ok, I know what to do. Go back to the last good backup and restore again, being careful to try to figure out what I was doing wrong. However, the restore operation failed. I scanned the log files, found the first negative indictor. Copied everything including and after that. See below for that. Talk of permission (nothing has changed about that) and not being able to delete old files. Bryce, I read the magazine article. It didn’t give me a way to fix this. I am not a programmer. Can anybody look at the errors, and tell me what I did wrong?

Should I delete old files before trying again?

“`using UpdraftPlus_ZipArchive, starting index 0
0041.221 () Unzip progress: 10 out of 10 files (7.7 KB, error_log-old)
0041.281 () PHP event: code E_WARNING: copy(): The first argument to copy() function cannot be a directory (line 309, wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php)
0041.520 () Error message: Could not move old files out of the way. You should check the file ownerships and permissions in your WordPress installation (/home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins)
0041.536 () Restore failed…
0041.536 () Error message: Could not move old files out of the way. You should check the file ownerships and permissions in your WordPress installation (/home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins)
0041.536 () Restore failed
0000.002 () Opened log file at time: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:10:51 +0000 on https://neurosciencetools.com
0000.003 () UpdraftPlus WordPress backup plugin (https://updraftplus.com): 1.16.69 WP: 5.8.3 PHP: 7.4.27 (cgi-fcgi, Linux gator3013.hostgator.com 4.19.150-76.ELK.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 7 01:34:10 CDT 2020 x86_64) MySQL: 5.6.41-84.1 (max packet size=268435456) WPLANG: en_US Server: Apache safe_mode: 0 max_execution_time: 900 memory_limit: 256M (used: 80.7M | 83M) multisite: N openssl: OpenSSL 1.1.1m 14 Dec 2021 mcrypt: N LANG: ZipArchive::addFile: Y
0000.058 () Free space on disk containing Updraft’s temporary directory: 142559.5 MB
0000.087 () Restore setup, now closing connection and starting restore over AJAX.
0000.014 () Opened log file at time: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:10:53 +0000 on https://neurosciencetools.com
0000.014 () UpdraftPlus WordPress backup plugin (https://updraftplus.com): 1.16.69 WP: 5.8.3 PHP: 7.4.27 (cgi-fcgi, Linux gator3013.hostgator.com 4.19.150-76.ELK.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 7 01:34:10 CDT 2020 x86_64) MySQL: 5.6.41-84.1 (max packet size=268435456) WPLANG: en_US Server: Apache safe_mode: 0 max_execution_time: 900 memory_limit: 256M (used: 77.9M | 81M) multisite: N openssl: OpenSSL 1.1.1m 14 Dec 2021 mcrypt: N LANG: ZipArchive::addFile: Y
0000.088 () Free space on disk containing Updraft’s temporary directory: 142559.4 MB
0000.122 () Ensuring WP_Filesystem is setup for a restore
0000.123 () WP_Filesystem is setup and ready for a restore
0000.128 () Restore job started. Entities to restore: plugins, themes, others, db. Restore options: {“include_unspecified_tables”:false,”tables_to_restore”:[“wp_options”,”wp_users”,”wp_usermeta”,”wp_actionscheduler_actions”,”wp_actionscheduler_claims”,”wp_actionscheduler_groups”,”wp_actionscheduler_logs”,”wp_commentmeta”,”wp_comments”,”wp_links”,”wp_postmeta”,”wp_posts”,”wp_term_relationships”,”wp_term_taxonomy”,”wp_termmeta”,”wp_terms”,”wp_wc_category_lookup”,”wp_wc_product_meta_lookup”,”wp_wc_reserved_stock”,”wp_wc_tax_rate_classes”,”wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta”,”wp_woocommerce_payment_tokenmeta”,”wp_gf_addon_feed”,”wp_gf_draft_submissions”,”wp_gf_entry”,”wp_gf_entry_meta”,”wp_gf_entry_notes”,”wp_gf_form”,”wp_gf_form_meta”,”wp_gf_form_revisions”,”wp_gf_form_view”,”wp_gf_rest_api_keys”,”wp_mailchimp_carts”,”wp_mailchimp_jobs”,”wp_mec_dates”,”wp_mec_events”,”wp_wc_admin_note_actions”,”wp_wc_admin_notes”,”wp_wc_customer_lookup”,”wp_wc_download_log”,”wp_wc_order_coupon_lookup”,”wp_wc_order_product_lookup”,”wp_wc_order_stats”,”wp_wc_order_tax_lookup”,”wp_wc_rate_limits”,”wp_wc_webhooks”,”wp_woocommerce_api_keys”,”wp_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies”,”wp_woocommerce_downloadable_product_permissions”,”wp_woocommerce_log”,”wp_woocommerce_order_items”,”wp_woocommerce_payment_tokens”,”wp_woocommerce_sessions”,”wp_woocommerce_shipping_zone_locations”,”wp_woocommerce_shipping_zone_methods”,”wp_woocommerce_shipping_zones”,”wp_woocommerce_tax_rate_locations”,”wp_woocommerce_tax_rates”,”wp_yoast_indexable”,”wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy”,”wp_yoast_migrations”,”wp_yoast_primary_term”,”wp_yoast_seo_links”,”wp_yoast_seo_meta”],”tables_to_skip”:[],”updraft_encryptionphrase”:””,”updraft_restorer_wpcore_includewpconfig”:false,”updraft_incremental_restore_point”:-1}
0000.130 () Will not delete any archives after unpacking them, because there was no cloud storage for this backup
0000.131 () Entity: others
0000.131 () restore_backup(backup_file=backup_2022-01-08-2117_Neuroscience_Tools_b0d2998a3230-others.zip, type=others, info=a:2:{s:4:”path”;s:39:”/home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content”;s:11:”description”;s:6:”Others”;}, last_one=1)
0000.131 () Unpacking backup… (backup_2022-01-08-2117_Neuroscience_Tools_b0d2998a3230-others.zip, 0 MB)
0000.131 () Unpack resumption may be possible: zip_starting_index=0, last_exists=, last_size=n/a, last_status=a:3:{s:5:”index”;i:9;s:4:”info”;a:8:{s:4:”name”;s:13:”error_log-old”;s:5:”index”;i:9;s:3:”crc”;i:784033777;s:4:”size”;i:1;s:5:”mtime”;i:1635365420;s:9:”comp_size”;i:1;s:11:”comp_method”;i:0;s:17:”encryption_method”;i:0;}s:12:”size_written”;i:7920;}
0000.135 () Unzipping backup_2022-01-08-2117_Neuroscience_Tools_b0d2998a3230-others.zip to /home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content/upgrade/f95a806e/ using UpdraftPlus_ZipArchive, starting index 0
0000.139 () Unzip progress: 10 out of 10 files (7.7 KB, error_log-old)
0000.142 () PHP event: code E_WARNING: copy(): The first argument to copy() function cannot be a directory (line 309, wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php)
0000.144 () Error message: Could not move old files out of the way. You should check the file ownerships and permissions in your WordPress installation (/home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins)
0000.146 () Restore failed…
0000.146 () Error message: Could not move old files out of the way. You should check the file ownerships and permissions in your WordPress installation (/home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins)
0000.146 () Restore failed
0000.005 () Opened log file at time: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:57:02 +0000 on https://neurosciencetools.com
0000.006 () UpdraftPlus WordPress backup plugin (https://updraftplus.com): 1.22.1 WP: 5.8.3 PHP: 7.4.27 (cgi-fcgi, Linux gator3013.hostgator.com 4.19.150-76.ELK.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 7 01:34:10 CDT 2020 x86_64) MySQL: 5.6.41-84.1 (max packet size=268435456) WPLANG: en_US Server: Apache safe_mode: 0 max_execution_time: 900 memory_limit: 256M (used: 81.1M | 87M) multisite: N openssl: OpenSSL 1.1.1m 14 Dec 2021 mcrypt: N LANG: ZipArchive::addFile: Y
0000.094 () Free space on disk containing Updraft’s temporary directory: 141465.8 MB
0000.154 () Restore setup, now closing connection and starting restore over AJAX.
0000.014 () Opened log file at time: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:57:04 +0000 on https://neurosciencetools.com
0000.015 () UpdraftPlus WordPress backup plugin (https://updraftplus.com): 1.22.1 WP: 5.8.3 PHP: 7.4.27 (cgi-fcgi, Linux gator3013.hostgator.com 4.19.150-76.ELK.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 7 01:34:10 CDT 2020 x86_64) MySQL: 5.6.41-84.1 (max packet size=268435456) WPLANG: en_US Server: Apache safe_mode: 0 max_execution_time: 900 memory_limit: 256M (used: 77.9M | 81M) multisite: N openssl: OpenSSL 1.1.1m 14 Dec 2021 mcrypt: N LANG: ZipArchive::addFile: Y
0000.117 () Free space on disk containing Updraft’s temporary directory: 141465.8 MB
0000.159 () Ensuring WP_Filesystem is setup for a restore
0000.161 () WP_Filesystem is setup and ready for a restore
0000.175 () Restore job started. Entities to restore: plugins, themes, others, db. Restore options: {“include_unspecified_tables”:false,”tables_to_restore”:[“wp_options”,”wp_users”,”wp_usermeta”,”wp_actionscheduler_actions”,”wp_actionscheduler_claims”,”wp_actionscheduler_groups”,”wp_actionscheduler_logs”,”wp_commentmeta”,”wp_comments”,”wp_links”,”wp_postmeta”,”wp_posts”,”wp_term_relationships”,”wp_term_taxonomy”,”wp_termmeta”,”wp_terms”,”wp_wc_category_lookup”,”wp_wc_product_meta_lookup”,”wp_wc_reserved_stock”,”wp_wc_tax_rate_classes”,”wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta”,”wp_woocommerce_payment_tokenmeta”,”wp_gf_addon_feed”,”wp_gf_draft_submissions”,”wp_gf_entry”,”wp_gf_entry_meta”,”wp_gf_entry_notes”,”wp_gf_form”,”wp_gf_form_meta”,”wp_gf_form_revisions”,”wp_gf_form_view”,”wp_gf_rest_api_keys”,”wp_mailchimp_carts”,”wp_mailchimp_jobs”,”wp_mec_dates”,”wp_mec_events”,”wp_wc_admin_note_actions”,”wp_wc_admin_notes”,”wp_wc_customer_lookup”,”wp_wc_download_log”,”wp_wc_order_coupon_lookup”,”wp_wc_order_product_lookup”,”wp_wc_order_stats”,”wp_wc_order_tax_lookup”,”wp_wc_rate_limits”,”wp_wc_webhooks”,”wp_woocommerce_api_keys”,”wp_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies”,”wp_woocommerce_downloadable_product_permissions”,”wp_woocommerce_log”,”wp_woocommerce_order_items”,”wp_woocommerce_payment_tokens”,”wp_woocommerce_sessions”,”wp_woocommerce_shipping_zone_locations”,”wp_woocommerce_shipping_zone_methods”,”wp_woocommerce_shipping_zones”,”wp_woocommerce_tax_rate_locations”,”wp_woocommerce_tax_rates”,”wp_yoast_indexable”,”wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy”,”wp_yoast_migrations”,”wp_yoast_primary_term”,”wp_yoast_seo_links”,”wp_yoast_seo_meta”],”tables_to_skip”:[],”updraft_encryptionphrase”:””,”updraft_restorer_wpcore_includewpconfig”:false,”updraft_incremental_restore_point”:-1}
0000.278 () Will not delete any archives after unpacking them, because there was no cloud storage for this backup
0000.279 () Entity: others
0000.279 () restore_backup(backup_file=backup_2022-01-08-2117_Neuroscience_Tools_b0d2998a3230-others.zip, type=others, info=a:2:{s:4:”path”;s:39:”/home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content”;s:11:”description”;s:6:”Others”;}, last_one=1)
0000.279 () Unpacking backup… (backup_2022-01-08-2117_Neuroscience_Tools_b0d2998a3230-others.zip, 0 MB)
0000.280 () Unpack resumption may be possible: zip_starting_index=0, last_exists=, last_size=n/a, last_status=a:3:{s:5:”index”;i:9;s:4:”info”;a:8:{s:4:”name”;s:13:”error_log-old”;s:5:”index”;i:9;s:3:”crc”;i:784033777;s:4:”size”;i:1;s:5:”mtime”;i:1635365420;s:9:”comp_size”;i:1;s:11:”comp_method”;i:0;s:17:”encryption_method”;i:0;}s:12:”size_written”;i:7920;}
0000.302 () Unzipping backup_2022-01-08-2117_Neuroscience_Tools_b0d2998a3230-others.zip to /home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content/upgrade/f95a806e/ using UpdraftPlus_ZipArchive, starting index 0
0000.414 () Unzip progress: 10 out of 10 files (7.7 KB, error_log-old)
0000.450 () PHP event: code E_WARNING: copy(): The first argument to copy() function cannot be a directory (line 309, wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php)
0000.455 () Error message: Could not move old files out of the way. You should check the file ownerships and permissions in your WordPress installation (/home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins)
0000.457 () Restore failed…
0000.458 () Error message: Could not move old files out of the way. You should check the file ownerships and permissions in your WordPress installation (/home4/cwscouten/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins)
0000.458 () Restore failed”

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