[Plugin: WordPress Backup to Dropbox] Error during backups, No files in Dropbox

  • Hi Michael,

    First of all thank you very much for the plugin.

    However I am unable to get it to work.

    The following messages show up on the log:

    Backup completed on 2012-07-02 at 00:09:45
    Backup warning on 2012-07-02 at 00:09:44: file ‘jesusan2_sotwp-backup.sql’ exceeds 40 percent of your PHP memory limit. The limit must be increased to back up this file.
    Backup started on 2012-07-02 at 00:00:59
    Backup completed on 2012-07-01 at 22:26:50
    Backup warning on 2012-07-01 at 22:26:49: There was an error uploading ‘/home2/jesusan2/public_html/schoolofthinking/wp-content/backups/jesusan2_sotwp-backup.sql’ to Dropbox
    Backup started on 2012-07-01 at 22:19:20

    I have followed some of your advice to set up the maximum_execution_time to ‘0’ and extended my php memory to 128 MB.

    It still dosen’t seem to work.

    No actual backups showed in the dropbox folder.

    Can you give me some hint of solving it?

    Btw, our site is pretty big, the database itself is about 50MB already. The backup file for the entire site is 400MB.

    Thanks so much,
    Jenks

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/

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  • Plugin Contributor Michael De Wildt

    (@michaeldewildt)

    Wow.. that is a large site. The way the current Dropbox PHP lib is written is pretty crappy and at the moment. It requires the whole file to be loaded into memory before uploading it to Dropbox.

    So if your sql dump is 400mb your gonna need around 600-800mb of memory to upload it which is bad!

    I need to set aside some time to implement streaming large files to Dropbox that involves re-writing the Dropbox PHP API… sigh…

    Short of doing that I’ll look at splitting the DB dump into smaller files so they can be uploaded using the current API.

    Thread Starter pandaguo

    (@pandaguo)

    Ohh, thanks for explaining this to me. I think I will just backup the database it self then. Its the FTP directories that are big. I think as long as the database is there, I can get always build a new wp when it crashes. After all, the content is the most important.

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