server spaced used?

  • Resolved Geoff

    (@geoffb1)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    The admin page showed 2.2GB of space used by Updraft Plus after the first backup and 2.5GB used after a second (my settings are set to keep two sets).

    Questions:

    1. Two gigabytes is alot of set aside space – is this normal? Is this permanent space or just max scratch space the program uses while in the act of backing up that gets released afterwards?

    2. Doing the arithmetic, that also means 200-300 MB per backup set. For comparisons, my backupbuddy file for the same site is approx 50MB. Is this apples to apples? If so, why the difference? If not, what’s the difference?

    thanks,

    G

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  • Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi Geoff,

    If you had several failed runs, then probably you’ve got various incomplete zips lying around. Click on the “Rescan” link in the “Restore” section to make them all show up. Then you can delete them (if you first update to the developer version, see here – https://updraftplus.com/faqs/devversion/).
    Alternatively, just inspect manually via FTP – look in wp-content/updraft (that’s the only location UpdraftPlus stores anything).

    There may also be temporary files in there – more if you’ve had some failed attempts before getting it going. Those get automatically deleted after 12 hours.

    UD just zips up your files, so I’d expect it to be the same as BackupBuddy.

    David

    Thread Starter Geoff

    (@geoffb1)

    Thx. Went in and cleared out with FTP. It was the failed runs as well as a huge uploads folder that contained ironically half a dozen obsolete backupbuddy archives.
    Thanks again

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