Excessive and Unsolicited Backups

  • Even though I have disabled automatic backups and it is not configure to do it, it generates over 1100 backups in a single day running every 5 minutes. This is eating up over 4 GB a day on the server.

    I mean what the hell? I didn’t ask for it. It is set OFF means don’t do anything but apparently it thinks it knows better and does whatever it wants which is as bad if not worse than a malware behavior.

    You are killing the site performance by effectively tying up the database connection ALL DAY, EVERY DAY. You are also causing massive system resource drains running operations that no one asked for.

    So why the heck has this not been addressed given the amount of reports about it and why has it not been fixed? This is unacceptable from a so called security software.

    I have to manually go in there each day to run a batch delete of over 1500 on average of both .SQL files and .ZIP files in the backup directory that shouldn’t be generated. I have gone so far as to even disable the backup module altogether instead of relying on its competence to honor the option that is set for it to NOT run automatically. Yet it still occurs. Like malware, it continues to do what it wants without any regard to directives chosen.

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    (@jjacksonmakeitcompletecom)

    This just happened to me too. In my case, I had moved the site from one domain to another (development to production). Looks like the path the backup files is incorrect and then it starts looping in the backup creation. Correct the path and then the problem should fix itself.

    Thread Starter Gμ?rD???

    (@guardian74)

    Thank you for the information, but unfortunately in my case, there has been no move or change.

    They have been having one kind of backup problem or another for a long time, which is why I had it off to begin with and using other security extensions that create valid backups much more efficiently. For example, I won’t have a bunch of ZIP versions that are 0 length or SQL versions that are 0 length which is basically a useless “backup”.

    These other tools run only when told, do the job quickly and correctly and I rely on their backups, I wouldn’t trust backups from this even if it “worked”, which is doesn’t. But for a while now, it keeps running itself whenever it feels like it and doing it BADLY.

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