UpDraftPlus Scheduling not working

  • Resolved Herzog

    (@therewardboss)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    For some reason, my scheduled backups won’t run unless I press the back up now button. Every day I look at it, the scheduled date just keeps moving forward one day.

    I read through some of the other threads on the same topic and think it has something to do with the CRON jobs. Godaddy has some issues with that.

    I installed WP Crontrol and got this error:

    There was a problem spawning a call to the WP-Cron system on your site. This means WP-Cron events on your site may not work. The problem was:
    Unexpected HTTP response code: 429

    Any suggestions?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/

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  • Plugin Contributor DNutbourne

    (@dnutbourne)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    The HTTP response code that you are seeing in WP Crontrol is a ‘Too Mnay Requests’ code.

    It appears that the WordPress Scheduler is not able to run scheduled tasks. As such, the UpdraftPlus scheduled backups are not able to run. The manual backups are triggered without using the scheduler.

    You will need to contact your hosts and ask them to investigate the issue, as this appears to be an issue with the server itself.

    Thread Starter Herzog

    (@therewardboss)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    I checked with Godaddy and they don’t allow CRON jobs with WordPress hosting. It could work on their regular cpanel hosting.

    Any way around this other than switching hosts?

    Plugin Contributor DNutbourne

    (@dnutbourne)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    You can try the WordPress Alternate CRON. To do this, add the following line to your wp-config.php file, just above the ‘stop editing’ line:
    define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true);

    More information can be found here.

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