Title: Long running backup
Last modified: November 7, 2020

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# Long running backup

 *  [swissspaceboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swissspaceboy/)
 * (@swissspaceboy)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/long-running-backup/)
 * Hello,
 * I have this plugin since years on several sites. Lately, when I start manually
   a backup of files and database, it runs for hours!
 * The zip file is complete (I can open it) and it is generated after 1-2 minutes(
   600MB), but the backup job remains running for too long time. It finally ends
   with no error. Sometimes I have to kill it.
 * Why this job is running so long by doing nothing for 90% of the time?
 * Is there any compatibility issue with the latest WP version? This plugin seems
   to be abandonned too.
 * Didier.

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 *  Thread Starter [swissspaceboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swissspaceboy/)
 * (@swissspaceboy)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/long-running-backup/#post-13635362)
 * Extra note: the scheduled job goes through in a reasonable time.
 * But when I run the job manually from the dashboard, it never ends.
 * D.
 *  Thread Starter [swissspaceboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swissspaceboy/)
 * (@swissspaceboy)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/long-running-backup/#post-13941852)
 * I saw that the backup file is well generated and it can be exploited. It is just
   the backup job that keeps running forever. It keeps the lock file in the backup
   folder.
 * If you kill the job, the backup file will be gone.
 * In the end, useless of course. I never got an error message somewhere logged 
   🙁
 * Didier.

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