Backup won't complete after 36-hours…

Gday mate,

Wow… 1.5gb. That is a very big website. The non zip version will take a very long time to complete if you are relying on the wp-cron. I would consider hooking it up to a real cron job to get it done.

Regarding the zip version. Does it finish zipping? or does it fail on upload?

Cheers,
Mikey

I’m not sure it gets to the point of zipping – it seems to keep uploading images. It seemed like it was repeating files, but maybe it was just all of the different resolution images. I likely wasn’t being patient enough…
I’ll give the cron job approach a go.
Thanks

Have you activated the zip extension?

Cheers,
Mikey

I did indeed.

I am having this issue as well. However, I am using the zip extension.
When the extension was finishing successfully my site was around 450-500mb.

17:15:45: Backup started on Saturday April 20, 2013.
17:15:45: Your time limit is 14400 seconds and your memory limit is 1000M
17:15:59: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress core.
17:16:15: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress plugins.
17:23:17: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
17:24:05: Creating zip archive.
17:24:19: Approximately 1% complete.
17:24:26: Approximately 38% complete.
17:24:33: Approximately 99% complete.
17:24:41: Approximately 99% complete.
17:24:53: Approximately 99% complete.
17:25:01: Approximately 99% complete.
[…]
17:36:19: Approximately 99% complete.
17:36:30: Approximately 99% complete.
17:36:43: Uploading /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-content/backups/a-farr-|-riskier-market-backup-2013-04-20.zip (505.95MB) in chunks.
17:43:07: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
17:47:08: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress core.
17:47:22: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress plugins.
17:49:33: Backup complete.
17:49:33: A total of 40789 files were processed.
17:49:33: A total of 56MB of memory was used to complete this backup.
17:58:14: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
18:01:14: Creating zip archive.
18:01:20: Approximately 51% complete.
18:01:26: Approximately 51% complete.
18:01:32: Approximately 51% complete.
18:01:38: Approximately 51% complete.
[…]
18:05:45: Approximately 51% complete.
18:05:51: Approximately 51% complete.
18:05:53: Uploading /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-content/backups/a-farr-|-riskier-market-backup-2013-04-20.zip (1.15MB).
18:11:10: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
18:12:11: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress core.
18:12:31: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress plugins.
18:17:44: Creating zip archive.
18:18:00: Approximately 1% complete.
18:18:09: Approximately 38% complete.
18:18:18: Approximately 79% complete.
18:18:25: Approximately 99% complete.
[…]
18:34:01: Approximately 99% complete.
18:34:09: Approximately 99% complete.
18:34:25: Uploading /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-content/backups/a-farr-|-riskier-market-backup-2013-04-20.zip (502.06MB) in chunks.
18:45:09: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
18:46:10: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress core.
18:46:28: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress plugins.
18:46:57: Backup complete.
18:46:57: A total of 60711 files were processed.
18:46:57: A total of 63MB of memory was used to complete this backup.
18:52:12: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
18:53:12: Creating zip archive.
18:53:18: Approximately 67% complete.
18:53:24: Approximately 67% complete.
[…]
18:57:22: Approximately 67% complete.
18:57:28: Approximately 67% complete.
18:57:33: Uploading /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-content/backups/a-farr-|-riskier-market-backup-2013-04-20.zip (0.51MB).
19:05:15: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
19:06:16: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress core.
19:06:49: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress plugins.
19:17:13: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
19:18:19: Creating zip archive.
19:18:25: Approximately 50% complete.
19:18:31: Approximately 50% complete.
[…]
19:23:24: Approximately 50% complete.
19:23:30: Approximately 50% complete.
19:23:36: Approximately 50% complete.
19:23:41: Uploading /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-content/backups/a-farr-|-riskier-market-backup-2013-04-20.zip (0.51MB).
19:28:06: Creating zip archive.
19:28:12: Approximately 51% complete.
19:28:18: Approximately 51% complete.
[…]
19:33:05: Approximately 50% complete.
19:33:11: Approximately 50% complete.
19:33:13: Uploading /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-content/backups/a-farr-|-riskier-market-backup-2013-04-20.zip (1.07MB).
19:39:12: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
19:42:13: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress core.
19:42:42: Creating SQL backup of your WordPress plugins.
19:48:13: There has been no backup activity for a long time. Attempting to resume the backup.
19:49:19: Creating zip archive.
19:49:26: Approximately 66% complete.
19:49:32: Approximately 66% complete.
[…]
19:51:48: Approximately 66% complete.
19:51:55: Approximately 66% complete.
19:52:01: Backup stopped by user.

[Terminated by me]

The first run through works fine, in that I receive the zipped folder in my dropbox and aside from the odd percentages in the log I can’t tell that there is a problem (Note in the log that it uploaded ~500mb). The problem starts where the plugin doesn’t doesn’t seem to realize it is finished with its backup. It appears after it uploads it starts another job. It keeps doing this until I manually intervene. Today when I caught it I had 6 cron jobs going on my server log all ostensibly from the plugin. Even after I stopped the backup via the button on the log, the processes do not stop unless I manually kill them in cpanel. Its also causing my account to be throttled. I’ve never been throttled until recently, coinciding with the recent update to the plugin along with these issues arising.

Here is my server processes before I killed the cron jobs:
17837 /ramdisk/php/54/bin/php5 /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-cron.php Today at 17:51
17368 /ramdisk/php/54/bin/php5 /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-admin/admin.php Today at 17:51
16186 /ramdisk/php/54/bin/php5 /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-cron.php Today at 16:12
7502 /ramdisk/php/54/bin/php5 /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-cron.php Today at 17:06
6287 /ramdisk/php/54/bin/php5 /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-cron.php Today at 17:49
5926 /ramdisk/php/54/bin/php5 /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-cron.php Today at 17:42
6139 /ramdisk/php/54/bin/php5 /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-cron.php Today at 16:46

There is also a slew of php errors to go along. Instead of pasting a massive page of text I just zipped up all the logs as txt files in their entirety if that’s more helpful: errors.zip

I have just implemented a feature to version 1.5 that will resume uploads of large files that should solve your problem.

Please let me know how you go.

Cheers,
Mikey