Pretty good, but restore times out with default settings

  • Tried this for one migration. It worked, but I had to tweak things a bit to make it function correctly. The processing of the uploaded files kept timing out on my shared server, and I had to increase the limit in the settings to process it successfully.
    I don’t understand how you’re supposed to use Auto-Migration to move an existing site to a new host that will use the same DNS name, and the instructions didn’t address this. It seems the sites would have to both be active at the same time for one to be pulling information from the other while you watch, and it wasn’t obvious how to set this up.
    I was, however, able to complete the migration by download and upload, after adjusting the settings as described above.

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  • Plugin Support tonyrobins

    (@tonyrobins)

    Hello @tylertork

    Thanks for your feedback and review.

    Please note that all default WPvivid settings are actually optimized for most users. In some special environments, for example, where there are special restrictions on the server/site side, you may need to adjust the settings as needed.

    And for the DNS issue, please note that our plugin is just a php-level app that works within your WordPress site, you have to handle the DNS issue on your domain provider/web hosting side.

    To migrate a website to a different host and keep the same domain, the correct procedure would be,

    a. Create a full backup (database + files) of the source site and download it to your computer.
    b. Go to your domain provider’s website and point your domain name to the new hosting. See this example tutorial.
    c. Install WordPress on the new host and install WPvivid Backup Plugin.
    d. Upload the backup to the target site(using WPvivid plugin’s upload function or using an FTP to upload the backup to the wp-content/wpvividbackups folder) then restore.
    e. Check and make sure the new site works as expected, then delete the source site.

    Hope this helps.

    All the best,

    Thread Starter Tyler Tork

    (@tylertork)

    The cause of the failure wasn’t obvious from the messages your product displays. Maybe rather than having a hard and fast limit, you could arrange to ask people whether to continue? Or if you can’t manage that, display the time limit in the UI as you’re doing the processing, and when the time is approaching its end, flash colors or something? Maybe suggest which settings needs to change?

    I also noticed there was a lot of logging when processing a site that had been split into multiple files, and the messages looked like duplicates — same file processed multiple times — until I looked at them closely to see that it was different steps being done to the same file. But because the messages for the same file aren’t together, it looked me while it was running like the files were being processed in a repeating loop that might never end.

    Plugin Support tonyrobins

    (@tonyrobins)

    Hi @tylertork

    Thanks for your update and suggestions!

    We are going to consider refining the logging and the messages in the future as suggested. Thanks again for helping improve the plugin.

    All the best,

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