Can't understand the backup's emails

  • Resolved eleanorb

    (@eleanorb)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I am having trouble understanding these emails of the backup process.

    First, the backup ended at 12:37, but the email was not sent until 10:55 am — the next morning? Or are different time zones being used?

    Second, the email says the backup took about 9 hours to complete, but the SQL and ZIP processes together sum to only about 3 hours. What am I missing here?

    Third, it says the SQL synthesis process took about an hour, but the sql files were completed in mere seconds after they began. Huh?

    All in all, I’m not sure if there is a problem here or not. On the face of it, the backup should not take very long (sometimes it completes in 3 minutes) — the resulting zip files are about 60 MB total.

    I am using 1.5.8. site is junctionra.ca

    Thanks,
    Eleanor Batchelder

    Here is the email report:

    From: WordPress <[email protected]>
    Date: December 26, 2014 10:55:24 AM EST
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Backup of Junction Residents Association on 2014-12-26

    Dear sirs,

    Please find hereafter a summary of the backup process.

    Global synthesis

    The backup process has started on December 26, 2014 06:47:42 and have lasted 547 minutes and 42 seconds

    SQL synthesis

    The SQL extraction has started on December 26, 2014 06:47:42 and have lasted 60 minutes and 55 seconds

    3746 entries have been extracted and have been stored in 2 files.

    BackupScheduler_20141226014742_0g1c7mu9cb.sql1 created on December 26, 2014 06:47:42
    BackupScheduler_20141226014742_0g1c7mu9cb.sql2 created on December 26, 2014 06:47:56
    ZIP synthesis

    The ZIP creation phase has started on December 26, 2014 10:28:39 and have lasted 129 minutes and 13 seconds

    690 files have been stored into 4 split files (zip, z01, z02, etc.).

    Please note that 0 files have been excluded from the backup process because their sizes exceed the chunk size (i.e. 20 Mo).

    These zip files a re accessible for 42 days at the following path:

    BackupScheduler_20141226014742_0g1c7mu9cb.z01 created on December 26, 2014 10:28:39
    BackupScheduler_20141226014742_0g1c7mu9cb.z02 created on December 26, 2014 10:28:50
    BackupScheduler_20141226014742_0g1c7mu9cb.z03 created on December 26, 2014 11:16:20
    BackupScheduler_20141226014742_0g1c7mu9cb.zip created on December 26, 2014 12:37:52
    Best regards,

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/backup-scheduler/

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  • Plugin Author Sed Lex

    (@sedlex)

    The sql process has ended at 06:47:56 and your zip process start at 10:28:39. Thus at least you can add 4 hours …

    From what I see, your webserver does not have many visitors. That is why it could be very quick when a visitor arrives and be paused a long time because no users connects.

    As explained in the “How to“, only the visits triggers the process

    Thread Starter eleanorb

    (@eleanorb)

    Where is this “How to” ?

    Plugin Author Sed Lex

    (@sedlex)

    In the configuration page of the plugin (in your admin panel)

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