Thread Starter
Kev
(@kevquirk)
Upon further investigation I can see that all of my backups are being stored in a different location that my website.
Recently I moved my website from /RefuGeeks to the root of my host. But the updraftplus backups are still being stored in /RefuGeeks. I assume I need to change something on the plugin (I’ve tried re-installing it but that didn’t work).
Can you point me in the right direction please?
Thanks,
Kec
For the second matter, the location for backups, click on the ‘expert settings’ link down the bottom of the settings page, and then the setting will appear. In a later version I am tweaking this so that it will handle site moves more intelligently.
For the first, please try the development version – de-install, then re-install (your settings should be remembered):
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/updraftplus.zip
Some recent new code to improve the scheduling, which is intended to minimise the time in between resumptions, was bringing in a problem for you. The development version hopefully fixes it – I’d be grateful if you could try it and then post your log again.
David
Thread Starter
Kev
(@kevquirk)
Hi David,
Thanks for the quick reply mate I really appreciate it.
Ok, so I’ve gone through the steps and we’ve still in the same position. I changed the storage path to the correct place (thanks for that) and the backup is in there, but not in the format I’d usually expect to see. I’d normally see 3 x .zip files (plugins, themes & uploads) then a .tar (I think) with my DB in.
What I am seeing is the 3 zip files but a load of .tar files which look like single tables from MySQL. There isn’t a single file like normal. The files obviously haven’t been uploaded to my FTP server either.
Here is a link to my log file from the backup I just ran:
http://pastebin.com/q9N5Gjj6
Just to confirm, my version number is now 1.4.32.
Thanks again
Kev
The top two lines of the log file show the previous version:
0000.000 Opened log file at time: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:10:33 +0000
0000.017 UpdraftPlus: 1.4.30 WordPress: 3.5.1 PHP: 5.2.17 (Linux ns22.sovdns.com
There’s only one copy of the version number inside the code, and everything else keys off there… so that can’t be the trunk version (1.4.32).
Thread Starter
Kev
(@kevquirk)
Hmmmm I don’t know why it’s done that. I’m definitely running 1.4.32. I’m about to finish work but I’ll give it another try when I get home.
Could it have been my cache actually? I’ll make sure I clear it before I try again.
Cheers David, I’ll let you know ASAP.
I don’t think there’s any way a cache could have produced that – it’s got the time on the first line; and it reads the version number out of the top of the same plugin file that’s running to produce the log file. But never mind – just run another.
Hi Kev,
Another report has identified an issue that can affect very large backups, and UpdraftPlus’s detection of whether another job is trying to upload the same file at the same time. I think this may be affecting you.
Please de-install, and re-install from trunk, and let me know how it goes:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/updraftplus.zip
David
Thread Starter
Kev
(@kevquirk)
Hi David,
I did what you said but the backup seems to be stuck on the following:
To decrease the likelihood of overlaps, increasing resumption interval to: 1740 (Mar 08 14:31:36)
Unfortunately there isn’t a log to give you as the backup is still running (it’s being doing so for well over 30 minutes now).
Cheers,
Kev
Hi,
That message is OK – it means that something more will happen within the next 30 minutes.
You can always find the latest log file by FTP-ing into wp-content/updraft, sorting by modification time, and picking out the most recent file that matches the pattern “log.*.txt”
David
Thread Starter
Kev
(@kevquirk)
Ok cool, I’ll leave it for a bit longer and come back to you. Thanks.
Thread Starter
Kev
(@kevquirk)
Looks like it failed with the following error:
Abort this run: the backup_time parameter appears to be empty (Mar 08 15:04:26)
I’ll need to see the whole log file to be able to say anything useful.
Thread Starter
Kev
(@kevquirk)
Hmmm. I’ve introduced some new scheduling bugs in the development version that you installed, but no matter how long I stare at it, I can’t work out why it’s doing what it is.
I’ve introduced some more logging to help me… please de-install, re-install and run a new back-up:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/updraftplus.zip
10 minutes will be enough for me to get the data I need, so please paste the newest log after that…
Thanks,
David
Thread Starter
Kev
(@kevquirk)
Ok, I don’t know what you changed but that backup worked. I’ve checked the FTP server and the normal 4 compressed files are there (themes, uploads. plugins & DB) all with today’s time stamp on them.
Here is the log file: http://pastebin.com/navxEWnm
I’ll monitor it for a few days and let you know. Would be nice to know what happened though. 🙂
