Connection problem

  • I’m testing backWPup and want to use it to efficiently backup several multisites (6) of various sizes on several virtual machines that I manage.

    I’d like to store daily and weekly backups on dropbox, and if everything works implement differential backups under one of your plans.

    I’ve installed the plugin and managed to use the WP CLI successfully to create backups and send them to Dropbox. However the Run Now options are mostly hitting an error (relaxing the firewall rules progressively achieved results – but they didn’t stick and failed on the first cron job):

    ERROR: Dropbox API: (7) Failed to connect to content.dropboxapi.com

    The firewall now contains rather a lot of exceptions (!):

    dropboxapi.com
    *.dropboxapi.com
    api.dropboxapi.com
    content.dropboxapi.com
    block-api.dropbox-dns.com
    block-api-iad.dropbox-dns.com
    45.58.70.4
    api-content.dropbox.com
    notify.dropboxapi.com
    *.dropbox.com
    dropbox.com
    api-content.dropbox.com

    but I can’t see why the CLI works every time and I think I should be able to get away with a simpler exception list of:

    api.dropboxapi.com
    content.dropboxapi.com

    I did also notice that if I authenticate using the recommended option it doesn’t always succeed and proceeded to send my files to a Dropbox Sandbox, who knows where – its not mine as far as I can see. (https://content.dropboxapi.com/1/files/sandbox/MyBackups/Etc/).

    Any suggestions?

    I’m slowly adopting Letsencrypt for ssl, which is a challenge on my MS setup. Could that have something to do with the problems?

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  • Thread Starter larus-argentatus

    (@ecce-homo)

    Update from the logs:

    More misses than hits - what gives?

    So it seems that the process will run, using wordpress cron, but only erratically and therefore unreliable.

    Any wisdom greatly appreciated, as all the other elements of the package look to me to be well considered and useful.

    Thread Starter larus-argentatus

    (@ecce-homo)

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    Thread Starter larus-argentatus

    (@ecce-homo)

    While I am happy to use WP CLI and linux cron to run BackWpUp, it would be nicer and better to be able to get reliable results just through the WP web interface.

    I’ve also noticed that you will run into memory problems with a larger database, which I have a few of.

    As there are no answers to recent questions, for now I am not going to upgrade to a paid plan and will continue evaluating other options, which is a shame.

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