Came in this morning to find our server crashed over the weekend.
In the Apache logs, this error was repeated ad infinitum:
[Sat Jul 09 06:54:55 2011] [error] [client 72.10.38.215] PHP Warning: fgets() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs/wp-con
tent/plugins/backwpup/job/job_functions.php on line 298
[Sat Jul 09 06:54:55 2011] [error] [client 72.10.38.215] PHP Warning: feof() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs/wp-cont
ent/plugins/backwpup/job/job_functions.php on line 297
[Sat Jul 09 06:54:55 2011] [error] [client 72.10.38.215] PHP Warning: ftell() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs/wp-con
tent/plugins/backwpup/job/job_functions.php on line 311
In WordPress, I had 6 empty BackWPUp job attempts that all said 0%.
I have had problems with backup jobs running more than once before, but usually only twice, and usually both succeeded and I just cleaned up after it. No big deal.
In this case, nothing was actually backed up and the error log became so large the whole system crashed.
Any ideas on what could cause this? I really don't want to start searching for an alternative.
Clif