Hi Sorin,
Thanks! I managed to find the unix syntax for setting up this cron job in Direct Admin.
/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null -q http://user:password@mydomain.com/?backup=UIYoBLUJrQ0A
This works with a site that is .htpasswd protected
Without protection the syntax is
/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null -q http://mydomain.com/?backup=UIYoBLUJrQ0A
side note:
For unix/linux folks this was all obvious I guess. For us simple wordpress php html css windows mac hacking coders that unix/linux stuff is abacadabra and good beginner tutorials are hard to find 🙂
@jason
Received response code ‘400 Bad Request’ while trying to upload a file chunk.
95% of the time this is because of a problem on with your connection being too slow and timing out.
Thanks for your suggestion. Reducing the chunk size didn’t help, and honestly, I don’t think my connection is the problem here. In the log entries below you see that backups run smoothly and transfer rather fast to my Google Drive. However, the last chunk seems to break the transmission. This is 100% repeatable and happens for whatever parameter settings (chunk sizes, timeouts, etc.).
Another thing that’s bugging me and that might be related is that Backup doesn’t respect the number of backups to keep locally. I’ve chosen 10, but older backups persist.
2012-09-25 13:11:43 NOTICE Environment: Backup 2.2; WordPress 3.4.2; PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17; SAPI apache2handler; OS Linux; ZIP 1.9.1; CURL 7.19.7; Time limit 60s; Memory limit 256M
2012-09-25 13:11:43 NOTICE Attempting to dump database.
2012-09-25 13:11:44 NOTICE The database dump was completed successfully in 0,324 seconds.
2012-09-25 13:11:44 NOTICE Attempting to create archive 'XXXXXXXXX-xxxxxx.zip'.
2012-09-25 13:11:47 NOTICE Successfully archived 1.538 files in 3,674 seconds. Archive file size is 30,98 MB.
2012-09-25 13:11:48 NOTICE Attempting to upload archive to Google Drive.
2012-09-25 13:11:48 NOTICE Uploading file with title 'XXXXXXXXX (xxxxxx)'.
2012-09-25 13:13:05 ERROR Received response code '400 Bad Request' while trying to upload a file chunk.
2012-09-25 13:13:05 WARNING The upload process timed out but can be resumed. Managed to upload 98.45% of the file. The upload speed was 412 kB/s.
I have the same: 100% repeatable now also when doing manual backup using the little button, so not to do with connection speed. The chunk that fails is always the last one, ie I have chunk size of 0.5MB and it is the last one (the one that is less than 0.5MB) that fails.
Seems like sebp99 and myself are lost here with noone able to help us resolve this issue.
Anyone?
Me too. Looks like since update, no backups are being uploaded to Google Drive. I have no idea why since the last log message I See is:
2012-11-01 13:33:46 NOTICE Uploading file with title ‘XXXXX (mct9lb)’.
(XXXX is just my website’s name)
But it never appears on my drive. Worked for months with no issue until now.
