Title: Updating
Last modified: December 20, 2016

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# Updating

 *  [forkmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forkmedia/)
 * (@forkmedia)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-23/)
 * First I want to say this a great plugin, especially for free. It works great 
   and I have not had any major issues with it.
 * But I kinda remember a year or so ago that I pointed out that updates to the 
   plugin had this unwanted behavior of doing a new backup after the update completes.
   I thought that had been fixed but I noticed that the last update 3.6.3.1 did 
   a new backup immediately after finishing the update. I couldn’t easily find my
   previous topic on this matter but did you fix it? Is there a setting to turn 
   off automatic backups after an update?
 * It’s not a big issue, just a minor annoyance in an otherwise awesome plugin.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Katrina “Kat” Moody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katmoody/)
 * (@katmoody)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-23/#post-8597334)
 * I vaguely remember something about this. But I was thinking that the backups 
   likely ran because the updates might be triggering wp-cron or something like 
   that. I can’t find the old topic and I don’t see anything in GitHub either.
 * Can you tell me a little more about the schedules you have set up? What are they–
   are they all on a schedule or manual only? If the backups run, is it only when
   the BWP plugin is updated or is it when any plugin, theme or core is updated?
 * Let me know okay?
 * Kat
 *  Thread Starter [forkmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forkmedia/)
 * (@forkmedia)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-23/#post-8597409)
 * I couldn’t find the old topic either but I’m pretty sure it was fixed is a few
   releases I updated to until this last one brought the behavior back.
 * I only use BackUpWordPress on one site regularly and have a very simple backup
   set with only a few exclusions for images, which are backed up separately by 
   using downML. Otherwise I would have to use up all my bandwidth with one large
   download.
 * Here it is:
    Backup my database and files weekly on Tuesday at 11:55 pm, store
   the last 5 backups in /cat/wp-content/backupwordpress-d0b7d0dbb5-backups. Send
   an email notification to (my email address).
 * The unscheduled backup runs only when BackUpWordPress is updated – and to clarify
   again, the behavior happened a year or so ago, then it went away after I posted
   about it, then it just came back with the last update. The backup happens immediately
   after the BackUpWordPress update finishes.
 * Again, not a big hassle, just a minor annoyance.
 * Thanks for considering fixing it.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Katrina “Kat” Moody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katmoody/)
 * (@katmoody)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-23/#post-8613870)
 * Thanks for providing more notes on this. I’ll pass them along to the developers
   to see if they can provide any checks against the schedule running upon plugin
   update.
 * Kat

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 * Last reply from: [Katrina “Kat” Moody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katmoody/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-23/#post-8613870)
 * Status: not a support question