Hi Bob,
If you post a log of your backup process in the support forum, then I’d be glad to take a look. There’s no generic problem with backing up sites over 800Mb – we’ve heard from customers who are backing up sites as large as 50Gb (i.e. 50,000 Mb). (UpdraftPlus doesn’t “phone home”, so there may be larger ones – that’s just the largest one I’ve heard of). Multi-gigabyte sites are very common.
Update: OK, I’ve found your support ticket – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-too-big?replies=11 – from the info in there, there seems to be an issue that your FTP server is having; that’s not under UpdraftPlus’s control. I don’t have any more insight than that, without some info on why your FTP server refuses to accept the upload. You’d need to speak to whoever runs the FTP server.
Note that you can cause UpdraftPlus to create smaller zip files, if the FTP server has a generic problem with large files, by using the expert setting at the bottom of the ‘Settings’ tab.
Best wishes,
David
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Bob
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Thanks David,
That log file was an attempt with GoDaddy, so it was destined to fail.
I then tried the same thing with DropBox, and again, the larger site failed to complete.
The only way it runs through is to load to my server and that’s an issue for me.
And the beauty of the plugin was the seemingly seamless migration, but even with the files from my server, again, the smaller site migrated flawlessly while the larger site was a disaster.
I’m going to give worpdrive a shot.
Definitely appreciate all the help though.