• Resolved FrankBukowski

    (@frankbukowski)


    Hi I’ve set UP to do backups of all files and database at the same time, to Google Drive. Email confirms both files and database has been backed up but when I look in the Google Drive folder on my PC or online, it only seems to contain themes, images, plugins, but no sign of database. Is that stored elsewhere, or did the backup malfunction? Thanks

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  • Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi Frank,

    Please can you post the backup log? Use pastebin.com to paste it, as it’ll be too big for this forum, and post the pastebin.com link instead.

    Best wishes,
    David

    Thread Starter FrankBukowski

    (@frankbukowski)

    Hi David

    Thanks for the swift response, much appreciated.

    Being fairly new to these things, where will I find the backup log and/or pastebin.com link? Happy to send you it if you can point me in the right direction.

    Best

    Archie

    Thread Starter FrankBukowski

    (@frankbukowski)

    Hi David

    I’ve used Chop instead of pastebin, as I don’t have a pastebin pro account and the log exceeded their 500k limit.

    Link is below, may take several seconds to load.

    http://chopapp.com/#x74aso2c

    Look forward to your thoughts.

    Thanks

    Frank

    Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi Frank,

    Thank you… how are you viewing your Google Drive folder? In the log, Google reports all of the entities, including database, as being successfully uploaded.

    David

    Thread Starter FrankBukowski

    (@frankbukowski)

    Hi David, I’m just looking in the Google Drive folder on my PC, using Windows, or the synced folder on the web, using a regular browser (Chrome). I see the same contents in each, as follows:

    Each backup produces a GZ file of about 600k and 4x zipped folders. The contents of each folder appear to be as follows:

    FIRST FOLDER CONTENTS – size 1KB
    ‘gallery’ file folder – empty
    ‘mu-plugins’ file folder – empty
    ‘wordtwit-data’ file folder – empty
    ‘index’ PHP script – 1KB
    ‘testBookad’ PNG Image – 1KB

    SECOND FOLDER CONTENTS – size 20,357KB
    ‘plugins’ file folder

    THIRD FOLDER CONTENTS – size 3,471KB
    ‘themes’ file folder

    FOURTH FOLDER CONTENTS – size 22,889KB
    ‘uploads’ file folder

    The ‘uploads’ file folder contains mostly images I’ve uploaded to site over the last 3 years, but it also contains two sub-folders. One, ‘et_temp’ which is empty, and another ‘profiles’, which contains the following:

    .htaccess file – 1KB
    .json file – 0KB
    index PHP script – 1KB
    scan JSON file – 2KB
    scan JSON file – 6KB

    That’s all I can see. Most of the images seem to be backed up, but I’m not sure where the rest of the content is – page content, posts, etc. It’s probably staring me in the face but not being familiar with this stuff I can’t see it. Let me know if I need to view it any differently.

    Thanks

    Frank

    Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi Frank,

    Your backup is fine; those are the expected contents. Page content, posts, etc., are part of the WordPress SQL database. That is backed up in the db.gz file.

    Best wishes,
    David

    Thread Starter FrankBukowski

    (@frankbukowski)

    Oh cool, thanks for clarifying that David, I can rest easy now.

    Much obliged.

    Best

    Frank

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