• I am trying to get an automatic backup to schedule on a weekly basis, to backup my database and files.

    The filesize is 260MB and I keep getting the following error in my logs:

    2011/08/03 21:18.54: [ERROR]Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261467347 bytes)

    Does anyone know what I need to modify to get it to work? The files are supposed to go to my Dropbox account.

    Do I need to modify something in my php.ini or .htaccess files?

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  • i have something similar. for some reason the creation of the zip file works, but uploading the (180mb file) to dropbox somehow fails:

    2011/08/07 00:18.42: 1. Versuche Datensicherungsdatei zur Dropbox zu senden ...
    2011/08/07 00:18.43: Authentifiziert mit Dropbox von XYZ
    2011/08/07 00:18.43: 7.49 GB frei in der Dropbox
    2011/08/07 00:18.43: Hochladen zur Dropbox hat begonnen ...
    2011/08/07 00:18.43: Speicher(limit) erhöht von 128M auf 128M
    2011/08/07 00:18.43: [ERROR]Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 181070353 bytes)
    2011/08/07 00:18.43: 1. Skript-Stop! Wird jetzt wieder neu gestartet!

    why does the dropbox upload needs that much time. is it possible to call the upload from a different script to save memory? or maybe split big zip files during upload?

    cheers!

    Thread Starter pealo86

    (@pealo86)

    I’ve even tried adding this to the top of wp-config.php
    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '300M');

    I’ve also uploaded the following php.ini file to my WP root aswell as inside wp-admin:
    memory_limit = 300M

    But I just keep getting the following error messages:

    Memory increased from 256M to 256M
    2011/08/15 13:22.32: [ERROR]Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261352890 bytes)

    I really don’t get why it tries to increase the memory limit to 256M (from 256M!?)

    Hello,

    I am also getting this error trying to backup all files to Dropbox. The backup file DOES arrive at Dropbox, however an error is still present.

    I do not have any errors backing up to the server when I run a non-Dropbox backup.

    Any help/a solution would be greatly appreciated. The backup file size was around 125mb. Here’s the log:

    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup version 2.1.4, WordPress version 3.2.1 Copyright © 2011 Daniel Hüsken
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup job: 3. Files Only (Weekly); FILE
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup cron: 0 5 * * 0; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 @ 05:00
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup job strated manualy
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: PHP ver.: 5.2.16; cgi-fcgi; Linux
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: MySQL ver.: 5.1.56
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: curl ver.: 7.21.0; OpenSSL/0.9.8b
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: Temp folder is: /tmp/.backwpup_2914660242/
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: Backup file is: /home/geoffsha/backups/geoffshaw.com.au_files_weekly_2011-08-30_17-19-50.zip
    2011/08/30 17:19.50: 1. try for make list of files to backup....
    2011/08/30 17:19.51: 2488 files with 141.75 MB to backup
    2011/08/30 17:19.51: 1. try to create backup zip (PclZip) archive...
    2011/08/30 17:20.01: Backup zip archive create done
    2011/08/30 17:20.01: Archive size is 125.09 MB
    2011/08/30 17:20.01: 1. Try to sending backup file to DropBox...
    2011/08/30 17:20.02: Authed with DropBox from Steve Holland
    2011/08/30 17:20.02: 48.08 GB free on DropBox
    2011/08/30 17:20.02: Upload to DropBox now started...
    2011/08/30 17:20.02: Memory increased from 256M to 256M
    2011/08/30 17:20.02: [ERROR]Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 131165517 bytes)
    2011/08/30 17:20.02: 1. Script stop! Will started again now!
    2011/08/30 17:20.02: 2. Try to sending backup file to DropBox...
    2011/08/30 17:20.03: Authed with DropBox from Steve Holland
    2011/08/30 17:20.03: 48.08 GB free on DropBox
    2011/08/30 17:20.03: Upload to DropBox now started...
    2011/08/30 17:20.03: Memory increased from 256M to 256M

    As you can see it appears to be a memory issue, however I can tell you it would definitely not require more than 256mb of memory just to transfer a file to Dropbox…

    About 5 minutes later I then get an email error once the file has arrived within Dropbox.

    Any ideas?

    Okay, I just tried it again and this time selected Tar Gzip instead of just ZIP and did not get the error.

    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup version 2.1.4, WordPress version 3.2.1 Copyright © 2011 Daniel Hüsken
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup job: 4. Files Only (Weekly); FILE
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup cron: 0 5 * * 0; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 @ 05:00
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup job strated manualy
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: PHP ver.: 5.2.16; cgi-fcgi; Linux
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: MySQL ver.: 5.1.56
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: curl ver.: 7.21.0; OpenSSL/0.9.8b
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: Temp folder is: /tmp/.backwpup_2914660242/
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: Backup file is: /home/geoffsha/backups/geoffshaw.com.au_db_weekly_2011-08-30_17-53-00.tar.gz
    2011/08/30 17:53.00: 1. try for make list of files to backup....
    2011/08/30 17:53.01: 2489 files with 141.75 MB to backup
    2011/08/30 17:53.01: 1. try to create tar.gz archive file...
    2011/08/30 17:53.16: tar.gz archive creation done
    2011/08/30 17:53.16: Archive size is 124.01 MB
    2011/08/30 17:53.16: 1. Try to sending backup file to DropBox...
    2011/08/30 17:53.17: Authed with DropBox from Steve Holland
    2011/08/30 17:53.17: 47.96 GB free on DropBox
    2011/08/30 17:53.17: Upload to DropBox now started...
    2011/08/30 17:53.17: Memory increased from 256M to 256M

    Weird…

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