Not robust enough for scaled production environment

Hi Nowton,

can you provide logfiles that we can check for your backup fails? There are many reasons why backing up your blog can go wrong. But with details from your site we can help you.

regards,
Robert

Dear Robert, I have a log from this morning, having adapted the latest recommended settings (but still failing). Can I post it here using pastebin, or would you recommend email for that, as logs contain absolute paths, clientnames, and such? Thanks in advance.

Hi Nowton,

please remove this private data and paste it to pastebin.

regards,
Robert

pastebin

Hi Nowton,

your backup seems to be too big for 9 transfer retries. Please increase the number of retries to get the backup done. Or you could try to split the backup into smaller ones. To test the upload you could exclude folders and get a smaller backup.

regards,
Robert

Is there any boundary I could use as a vantage point? Or is there some possibility for multisite support in BackWPup? That way I could split the backup by site, and perhaps have separate set for subsites as well.

I have upped it to 20 retries, but it still fails. This is getting ridiculous. How would I go about splitting the backup into smaller segments?

Ok, title of topic still stands. Will look for an alternative and not invest in Pro version. So sorry.

Try reading the tips given in the FAQ under “Backup jobs are running forever!”

It’s the solution to this problem, too.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/backwpup/faq/

FYI: The problem isn’t the plugin, it’s in how the server you have your site hosted on is configured. That is what is causing all the issues.

I have used this plugin on both large and small sites, and on some servers, large sites upload just fine, and on others they don’t.

I have even had issues on some servers with small sites, where the site needed to be split up as suggested in the FAQ to keep the backup file sizes under 5mb.

You need to find out what the upload limitations are for the server that is hosting your site and then figure out a way to split it up to stay under that size limit.

There is no way for any of us to know what the limits are on your server. That’s something you’d have to ask your web host.

This site does not run on any shoddy shared hosting account, but is on a dedicated server. So: tips read (thanks for the headsup), but all our content _is in the uploads folder.

And we’re not going to create 6 to 7 jobs to do one daily backup. That’s insane. We had another party install R1soft/Idera on it, and removed the plugin. On other smaller sites, we’re just fine running BackWPup