XAMPP backup command

[rob1grie]

I stumbled across the xampp backup command, gave it a quick try, thinking it may come in handy at some time. The resulting file appears to be a shell script (executable file with .sh extension) and is 1.2Gb since it contains a tar of my htdocs directory. What am I to do with this script?? Running it gives me this output, with the only prompt at the end:

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./xampp-backup-05-11-20.sh
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Checking integrity of files...
grep: md5sums: No such file or directory
md5sum: '*': No such file or directory
Restoring configuration, log and htdocs files...
tar (child): data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Checking versions...
cat: VERSION: No such file or directory
Installed:   XAMPP 7.2.31-1
Backup from: XAMPP
The backup sofware is not able to handle different XAMPP versions.
Your backuped configuration from  may not work with 7.2.31-1 and may need manually corrections.
XAMPP: Do you want to continue [nein]
Good choice.


[Nobbie]

The Xampp Backup function has not been finished and is not maintained since many years.

[rob1grie]

Ok, i was just hoping for clarification, so thank you for the quick response!