Title: Database duplicates? Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Database duplicates? * [Shaolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shaolin/) * (@shaolin) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-duplicates/) * Hi * Since updating BackupWordpress I seem to be getting 2 files in the zip. It tells me the database is around 67mb and previously the zips had just one file around 14mb and now I been getting a 25mb zip. But when I download the zip there are actually 2 sql databases in there one 63mb at 78% ratio and one 55mb at 81% ratio. They both have different names. The first one is named **domain-name-12345689- database-date** the second one says **database-12345689-database**. They have different ‘date modified’ details as well. * That one was run manually. * The one that was taken on auto a few hours earlier (and there would have been no activity on the site) is similar except the second one is 54mb. There is no date modified info on those, differing or otherwise. * So my question is: which is the real database if I need to restore (and why is it doing 2 of them with different names?)? * I just exported a zipped database from PHPMyAdmin and that was 11.4mb. Inside the zip was a 57mb sql at 81% ratio. So the 81% ratio would seem to match the second database in _your_ zip, but it’s a different size. And yet the database I manually ran from your plugin was less than an hour previously and no more data has been added or removed. * So basically I don’t know whether to trust that your plugin is backing up the database properly, and if it _is_ which one of the 2 sql files is my actual database? Clearly it can’t be both! * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [Shaolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shaolin/) * (@shaolin) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-duplicates/#post-5763603) * Oh and I don’t know if this is a bug, but when I updated it seemed to remove the notification email. I only noticed when I went to check why I hadn’t got one! * Thread Starter [Shaolin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shaolin/) * (@shaolin) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-duplicates/#post-5763605) * Correction: the second sql file is named: **database-domain-name-123456789** ( obviously making the numbers up but they are identical for both) * [Ben Huson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/husobj/) * (@husobj) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-duplicates/#post-5763864) * I am also getting this issue too. * Pretty sure it wasn’t happening before upgrading to version 3.1.3? * [ia2ca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ia2ca/) * (@ia2ca) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-duplicates/#post-5763865) * Can confirm. Plugin updated yesterday and the overnight backup doubled in size. Upon opening the zip there are two sql file of almost exactly the same size. * After further investigation, it appears it is grabbing the database from the previous day and inserting it into the zip file (it has yesterday’s date and is the same size). * I ran it again manually and repeated the results. I am concerned that tomorrow’s zip file may continue to increase in size if it is continuously adding the previous day’s results. * [ia2ca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ia2ca/) * (@ia2ca) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-duplicates/#post-5763866) * I can also add that no email was received upon completion. * [ia2ca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ia2ca/) * (@ia2ca) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-duplicates/#post-5763872) * Going to bump this up for attention. Still experiencing the same issue and noticed I wasn’t receiving emails either. Noticed in the settings that the email address had need reset to default. * Tried to update it with no luck (still reverted to default). Uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin, set up a new schedule and same thing – the email reverted back to default. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Database duplicates?’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/backupwordpress/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=1105225) * [BackUpWordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backupwordpress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backupwordpress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backupwordpress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backupwordpress/reviews/) ## Tags * [duplicates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/duplicates/) * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/) * 6 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [ia2ca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ia2ca/) * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-duplicates/#post-5763872) * Status: not resolved