How to “forget” remote backups?

Thanks for the answer… but, what if I want to keep using that same Google Drive to store my backups? That is: I want Updraft to “forget” about all the existing backups in the remote drive, but use it for my backups in the future.

I just tried doing what you said: deselect Google Drive, save changed, select Google Drive again and save changes. The previous backups are still there.

If I do that, I get the following error. The Google Drive credentials seem to get deleted (there is no remote storage selected), but the old list of backups are still there. And if I authenticate to Google Drive again… well, the list of backups stay there.

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Forgot to add: this is all with the latest versions of WordPress (5.5.1) and Updraft.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by PaulJBis.

I uninstalled Updraft Plus, went into the hosting site, deleted the /wp-content/updraft/ directory, and then reinstalled… and the old backups are still there. I then tried to delete settings in “Advanced Tools” (in the new Updraft install), and got the same error.

It’s a test install. The only other plugins I had were Woocommerce and WPML (I hadn’t even started to configure anything yet). I disabled all of them, tried… and the same thing happens.

Yes to both. The error messages are what I get when I try to use that “delete settings” option that you mentioned (and the settings don’t get erased either).

Um, I already did that before reinstalling the plugin. See:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-forget-remote-backups/#post-13378925

Anyway, I went again to the wp-content/updraft. The only two files in there were index.html and web.config. I had a look at them, and they didn’t have any config data, but just in case I deleted them and then rescanned the local storage. Nothing; the old backups are still there.

As for software versions: I already mentioned that I’m using the latest versions of WordPress (5.5.1) and Updraft (1.16.29). What I didn’t mention is that I’m running PHP 7.2. What’s the minimum supported version of PHP for this plugin? I just had a look at the requirements page, and didn’t see anything.