Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Hosting Service Backups"
However what are the chances of the host crashing and burning? High enough that your backups should be on another server/service.
View Articlegeoffkb on "Hosting Service Backups"
Thanks for the reply, I knew someone would say something like that. It has occurred to me that another line of defense is a good idea. Especially for sites which are being updated frequently. I pay for...
View ArticleIpstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Hosting Service Backups"
Well it comes down to how much of a pain in the butt it'll be if you have to restore, and what you'll lose if you can't. I get daily backups for 2 weeks, and monthly for 6 months. And it's expensive to...
View ArticleAndy on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration] wp-cron.php...
I monitor long running processes on my server (anything over 3 minutes). One thing that I have noticed since installing this plugin on a *somewhat* large site (lots of images) is that it leaves at...
View ArticleDavid Anderson on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration]...
Hi Andy, Those must be zombie processes; if they were actually doing anything, then later UD runs would detect them. (UD checks the file modification times of the zips its working on). To switch to a...
View ArticleAndy on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration] wp-cron.php...
Thanks, David. A bit of a "duh" moment on my part with the "manual" setting. [sigh] As noted on the UpdraftPlus site, I created a file with the following contents, called runbackup.php on the / of my...
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Hi Andy, What's the "stepped" method? David
View ArticleAndy on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration] wp-cron.php...
The 9 steps that the plugin goes through, which has big pauses in between the steps... My first test run with the above php file took about 3 hours to complete, and that seems a tad ridiculous. And it...
View ArticleDavid Anderson on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration]...
Hi Andy, OK - those aren't "steps"; those are restarts of a job for which the PHP process died. That shouldn't be able to happen from the command line, unless your server has something that detects and...
View ArticleAndy on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration] wp-cron.php...
It ran last night a bit better, I think. I've put the logfile here: http://pastebin.com/TR97efmJ I haven't yet swapped the zip off the binary - that will be my next step... That run last night produced...
View ArticleAndy on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration] wp-cron.php...
Yeah... Swapping to the non-binary zip totally made a difference. No zombie processes, and much faster... See the log here: http://pastebin.com/HM3BBr45
View ArticleDavid Anderson on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration]...
Hi Andy, Great, glad you got it working. Best wishes, David
View ArticleAndy on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration] wp-cron.php...
Just to sum up the thread for anyone else... I have UpdraftPlus backing up a somewhat large site (lots of pics!). For some reason, it really didn't like some of the default settings, and in addition, I...
View Articleadmail on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration] After...
After 1.9.0 update, I have no access to plugin.php, dashboard updates or UpdraftPlus settings page. All I get is a blank page. I tried deleting the plugin and UD folder in wp_content via hosting...
View Articleadmail on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration] After...
I did read the FAQ page.
View ArticleDavid Anderson on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration]...
Hi, UD has no hooks into plugin.php; therefore, if it is not loading, then it is likely that PHP is aborting due to your site running very close to the hosting company's configured memory limit. This...
View Articlepeterdmacdonald on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration]...
David, I think I have a similar problem. What do you recommend to manually reinstall updraft and make sure it backs up to dropbox? I updated 6 plugins tonight simultaneously - I do not know which ones....
View ArticleDavid Anderson on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration]...
Hi Peter, As per the WordPress forum welcome - http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post - please always start your own thread. Best wishes, David
View Articlegregy1403 on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration]...
Hi I also noticed that backup file, uploaded to Google drive is only 2.46MB big, where phpmyadmin says, database is 37MB any idea? Thank you
View ArticleDavid Anderson on "[Plugin: UpdraftPlus - WordPress Backup and Restoration]...
Hi, Presumably the phpmyadmin figure is an uncompressed backup? UD's database backup is compressed. David
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