Title: Fatal Error Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Fatal Error * [waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * (@waqasafzal) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/) * I am receiving the following from some days and after increasing limit in server php still error is not resolving * it appears randomly on accessing website, editing or anything not specific page or not any specific time. what can i do about his or should i switch to some other security plugin (btw i am using wordfence for some another website and its working pretty fine) – any recommendations ? * Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 245628928) (tried to allocate 38272983 bytes) in /hermes/walnaweb05a/b2657/pow.intek/htdocs/intekworld/wp-content/plugins/ better-wp-security/core/modules/backup/class-itsec-backup.php on line 206 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * (@dwinden) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7026860) * [@waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * Probably a duplicate of [this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-memory-exhausted-error) topic. * dwinden * Thread Starter [waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * (@waqasafzal) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7026874) * Ok i have unchecked the Schedule Database Backups * and then these two messages appeared on top the screen: * The file path entered for the log location does not appear to be valid. it has been reset to: /hermes/walnaweb05a/b2657/—-/wp-content/uploads/ithemes-security/ logs * The file path entered for the backup file location does not appear to be valid. it has been reset to: /hermes/walnaweb05a/b2657/—–/wp-content/uploads/ithemes- security/backups * (— are just to replace names) * is everything ok – should now i wait for some times if the error appear again or not ? * [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * (@dwinden) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7026883) * [@waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * Yes, everything is ok. Simply monitor the website and see whether the issue persists or whether it is resolved. * In the meantime investigate alternative solutions for scheduling automatic database\ website backups. * dwinden * [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * (@dwinden) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7027049) * [@waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * If you require no further assistance please mark this topic as ‘resolved’. * dwinden * Thread Starter [waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * (@waqasafzal) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7027050) * I am still monitoring the status of website and for now i did not saw fatal error again * so thinking if should i enable Schedule Database Backups option again or keep it same – for now there is no other option to take backups * [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * (@dwinden) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7027053) * [@waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * Ok, before enabling the Scheduled Database Backups option again follow the procedure below. * In the **Exclude Tables** setting of the Database Backups section on the iTSec plugin Settings page make sure the: * > [prefix]_itsec_temp, > [prefix]_itsec_lockouts, [prefix]_itsec_log * tables are excluded from the backup. (Where [prefix] should be substituted with your database tables prefix). * Next check for the presence of wp-content/uploads/ithemes-security/backup.lock folder. Delete the folder manually if it exists. * Now login to your database using phpMyAdmin and if necessary select your database. * To view your database structure, click the Structure tab at the top of your phpMyAdmin window. In the Structure window, you can view the table names, the number of records in each table, the size of each table etc. * Identify the table(s) with 10000s or 100000s records. Exclude that (those) table( s) from the iTSec plugin Database Backup. * Then try and create a backup manually. Click on the Create Database Backup button( it’s under the Backups tab). If the manual Database Backup completes successfully study the excluded tables. Ask yourself: what data is stored in that (those) table(s) ? Is there any point in including the data of those tables in a backup? Can I delete all records from this (those) table(s)? Often there are log tables holding many many many records of data which is useless. * **In other words try and reduce the database footprint(size) if possible.** * Once you are confident the database footprint is minimized and a manual Database Backup works you can try and enable the Scheduled Database Backups setting again… * dwinden * Thread Starter [waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * (@waqasafzal) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7027062) * now this is very technical * [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * (@dwinden) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7027064) * [@waqasafzal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waqasafzal/) * So find someone technical to do it for you. The in my previous post provided procedure is not that complicated. * dwinden Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Fatal Error’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/better-wp-security/assets/icon.svg?rev=3529351) * [Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-wp-security/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-wp-security/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-wp-security/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-wp-security/reviews/) ## Tags * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/) * [out of memory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/out-of-memory/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-1993/#post-7027064) * Status: not resolved