Title: [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Not doing daily backups
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Not doing daily backups

 *  Resolved [mousesavers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mousesavers/)
 * (@mousesavers)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-doing-daily-backups/)
 * I have the plug-in set up to backup daily, but noticed tonight the last backup
   was almost a week ago. I immediately did a “backup now” which worked fine, but
   why aren’t the automatic backups happening?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-doing-daily-backups/#post-2969148)
 * There are a couple of reasons this might be happening.
 * 1. You have an issue with WP Cron, see the FAQ for help on that: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/faq/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/faq/)
 * 2. Your not getting enough traffic to your site and so WP Cron isn’t getting 
   fired.
 *  Thread Starter [mousesavers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mousesavers/)
 * (@mousesavers)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-doing-daily-backups/#post-2969149)
 * Definitely not #2 as we get nearly a million unique visitors a month. 🙂
 * I’ll look into the WP Cron problem. Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-doing-daily-backups/#post-2969152)
 * Ah, it’s not a problem with visitors then 🙂
 * I’d imagine it’s either a WP Cron issue, or maybe the cron isn’t registered properly,
   you could try de-activating and re-activating the plugin to see if that sorts
   it out.
 *  Thread Starter [mousesavers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mousesavers/)
 * (@mousesavers)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-doing-daily-backups/#post-2969156)
 * It has started working! I removed a different backup plug-in and I’m wondering
   if that has been causing a conflict. In any case, seems to be fixed! Thanks for
   responding.
 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-doing-daily-backups/#post-2969157)
 * Thats great to hear. What was the other backup plugin you removed?
 *  Thread Starter [mousesavers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mousesavers/)
 * (@mousesavers)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-not-doing-daily-backups/#post-2969158)
 * It was WordPress Backup to Dropbox, which never worked… it would start the daily
   backup but always choked on certain files.

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