Title: Memory exhausted ?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Memory exhausted ?

 *  Resolved [CelticWebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podman/)
 * (@podman)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-exhausted-7/)
 * Just updated and I now get an error backing up which I did not get previously.
 *     ```
       [17-Nov-2014 04:01:34] 1. Trying to make a list of folders to back up …
       [17-Nov-2014 04:01:34] 1450 folders to backup.
       [17-Nov-2014 04:01:34] 1. Trying to create a WordPress export to XML file …
       [17-Nov-2014 04:02:42] Check WP Export file …
       [17-Nov-2014 12:02:42] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 100505672 bytes) in /var/zpanel/hostdata/zadmin/public_html/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/inc/class-jobtype-wpexp.php on line 410 [17-Nov-2014 04:02:42] ERROR: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 100505672 bytes)
       [17-Nov-2014 04:02:42] Restart will be executed now.
       [17-Nov-2014 04:02:43] 2. Trying to create a WordPress export to XML file …
       [17-Nov-2014 04:03:20] 3. Trying to create a WordPress export to XML file …
       [17-Nov-2014 04:04:15] Check WP Export file …
       [17-Nov-2014 12:04:15] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 100505672 bytes) in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/inc/class-jobtype-wpexp.php on line 410 [17-Nov-2014 04:04:15] ERROR: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 100505672 bytes)
       [17-Nov-2014 04:04:15] Restart will be executed now.
       ```
   
 * Is there a reason why this now requires more memory than I have allocated? I 
   know I can increase memory allocation but why does it need so much all of a sudden?
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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-exhausted-7/#post-5488307)
 * With version did you use.
 *  Thread Starter [CelticWebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podman/)
 * (@podman)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-exhausted-7/#post-5488312)
 * All latest versions, updated yesterday. I increased the memory allowance from
   256 to 384 and it worked fine but it seems a lot of memory to have to allocate.

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