Title: Backup schedule
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Backup schedule

 *  Resolved [ismhad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ismhad/)
 * (@ismhad)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-schedule/)
 * Hello,
 * The backups on my website seem to occur at random times and not consistently 
   at 11pm as indicated.
 * What can I do to make it more consistent, and furthermore, is there a way to 
   choose a different time of backup ? The 11pm doesn’t correspond to my timezone.
 * Here a prinscreen of my backup page. As you can see the backup times vary quite
   a lot:
 * [http://imgur.com/1ujdCYK](http://imgur.com/1ujdCYK)
 * Thank you
 * Ismaïl
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Paul de Wouters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauldewouters/)
 * (@pauldewouters)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-schedule/#post-4481855)
 * This is just how the WP job scheduling system works unfortunately. In order for
   a backup job to run, someone has to visit the website, either you or a visitor.
   Any job scheduled to run will then be started.
    Have you set the timezone correctly
   under General settings?
 *  Thread Starter [ismhad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ismhad/)
 * (@ismhad)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-schedule/#post-4481863)
 * Hello Paul,
 * Thank you for your response. I understand now. Do you think this mean that the
   site can be slower for a few minutes when we visit it ?
 * I have set the timezone to the correct one and the last backup ran on time, I
   guess I was connected to the dashboard when this happened.
 * Thanks again for this great plugin.
 * Cheers
 * Ismaïl
 *  [te-online](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasebert/)
 * (@thomasebert)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-schedule/#post-4481932)
 * Hello ismhad,
 * many hosting providers also allow you to set up special “cron jobs” that are 
   run at any specific time. Maybe you can just define a cronjob that visits [http://example.org/wp-cron.php](http://example.org/wp-cron.php)?

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