A few questions

  • Resolved radgh

    (@radgh)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, excellent plugin. I’ve actually ditched BackUpWordPress in favor of UpdraftPlus and so far it’s been an excellent decision! I’ve just set up Updraft to offload backups over FTP. It’s working fine but I have a few questions.

    The first two questions refer to this image: https://i.imgur.com/9WaeKlB.jpg

    1. I’ve set up weekly file backups and daily database backups. The backup process didn’t start immediately, so I figured it would happen later. So I took a manual backup by clicking the button. A few minutes later, I’ve got two backups running. Is the other one an automated backup, or is this the same backup running two processes?

    2. It’s nice that it detected the large file seen in the warnings. I excluded that directory from future backups. But why did it complain about the same file multiple times? Is it actually storing 2-3 copies of that file in each backup?

    This question is related to another website entirely

    3. One of the websites I’m using this plugin on has an affiliate tracking plugin installed for WooCommerce. Affiliate tracking has a few tables that have a tremendous number of rows to track visits. A backup stalled at around 30% and mentioned something like “The (affiliates table) has a large number of rows. We hope your host allows this…”.

    Later that day, the website went down and we had to restart it. The backup failed. We can only assume the affiliate plugin was the problem.

    Is there any way to make the plugin ignore a specific table? Or to chunk the mysql export like it does with file backups? Is this available in the pro version?

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  • Plugin Author David Anderson / Team Updraft

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi radgh,

    In the free version, the first backup is scheduled for 5 minutes after you save the settings. (This allows first-time users a few minutes to decide that they wanted one of the settings differently). So, yes, if you set a scheduled backup, and then start a manual backup a few minutes later, then you could then get two going at the same time.

    No, the same file doesn’t get stored multiple times. It can get detected multiple times if the backup gets killed by the webserver (e.g. PHP timeout) and resumes. However, the multiple warnings are unnecessary and potentially confusing – so, the next release will make sure it’s only done once.

    You can make the backup skip a particular table with this fragment in your functions.php or as an mu-plugin:

    add_filter(‘updraftplus_backup_table’, ‘my_updraftplus_backup_table’, 2);
    function my_updraftplus_backup_table($do_it, $table) {
    return (‘wp_sometable’ == $table) ? false : $do_it;
    }

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