Title: Backup does not start
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Backup does not start

 *  Resolved [Brainscrewer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainscrewer/)
 * (@brainscrewer)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-does-not-start/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve just downloaded this plugin since it seems to fit perfectly to my needs.
   However after installing it, and pressing WP2D -> Back-up Log to start the backup,
   nothing happens.
 * All I can see is ‘You have not run a backup yet. When you do you will see a log
   of it here.’, after pressing start, you see ‘Loading’ for a second after which
   the first message appears again.
 * I’ve installed Error log – No errors are being shown and the log is empty. I’ve
   also installed Cron Viewer, and the dropbox functions are also listed there.
 * Any advice?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-does-not-start/#post-3248802)
 * Do scheduled posts work for you?
 *  Thread Starter [Brainscrewer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainscrewer/)
 * (@brainscrewer)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-does-not-start/#post-3248805)
 * Doesn’t seem to work,
 * I’ve even added
 * <Files wp-cron.php>
    allow from all Satisfy Any </Files>
 * to my .htaccess, but it still won’t publish posts.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-does-not-start/#post-3248813)
 * What is your website?
 *  Thread Starter [Brainscrewer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainscrewer/)
 * (@brainscrewer)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-does-not-start/#post-3248816)
 * pimvellinga<dot>nl
 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-does-not-start/#post-3248820)
 * It looks like you have a Varnish layer in front of your blog and requests to 
   wp-cron.php are not actually hitting WordPress, hence the reason backups won’t
   start.
 * curl –head {site}/wp-cron.php
 * HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.18 Content-Type: text/html
   Content-Length: 0 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:37:22 GMT X-
   Varnish: 1412196925 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive
 * You need to add wp-cron.php to an exclude list within a Varnish VCL.
 * Cheers,
    Mikey

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 * Last reply from: [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-does-not-start/#post-3248820)
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