Cleanup of Backup files

  • Resolved charlesgodwin

    (@charlesgodwin)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    I am working with a multisite and a lot of WPDA backup files have been generated. We have learned how to disable this backup feature in all our subsites as we don’t need these backups. But… there are hundreds of orphaned tables with the structure like this example wpq6_48_wpda_publisher_BACKUP_20200709025637. These are from sites that no longer exist on the system so the function in WPDA Settings to delete them cannot be used.

    I would like to use a database tool like PHPMyAdmin and just delete each and every one of these unwanted tables. Can this do any harm to the continuing functionality of WPDA?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author Passionate Programmer Peter

    (@peterschulznl)

    Hi Charles,

    You can safely delete old backup files. They are just created as a backup in case a plugin repository update fails. You can delete old backup files from the WP Data Access settings menu:
    – Go to Settings menu
    – Tab Manage Repository
    – Click the button “Delete ? old backup tables”

    On a multisite installation you have to this for every site. You can use an external tools if prefer.

    Does this answer your answer?

    Best regards,
    Peter

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