Scheduled backups not running

  • Resolved adk0212

    (@adk0212)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Cyan Backup works great when I manually request a backup. However, scheduled backup jobs are not executing. I have it set for a daily backup at 3 AM. No backup occurs and after a few days the setup reads:

    Current server time: February 25, 2014 @ 2:44 am
    Next backup scheduled for: February 19, 2014 @ 3:00 am

    Any ideas? Does the scheduling mechanism rely on a PHP module that my host might not provide?

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  • Thread Starter adk0212

    (@adk0212)

    I should also mention I am currently running Cyan v1.3. I have not upgraded to v1.6 yet since the changelog doesn’t mention anything that seems relevant to my issue.

    Plugin Author Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    The backup uses WP Cron to schedule them so nothing else is required.

    Try disabling scheduled backups and then re-enabling it. That should remove the old entry in WP Cron and make a new one in the future.

    I did have one case in my test environment where WP Cron didn’t execute a job and then refused to execute it ever again once the time had passed.

    Thread Starter adk0212

    (@adk0212)

    It appears my issue is that WP Cron is not working. I can see using the WP Crontrol plugin that Cyan has its job scheduled properly, but no jobs seem to be running. Need to figure out why that is…

    Plugin Author Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    I’m marking this as resolved as it’s not an issue with CYAN Backup, but please let me know if you find the issue just for reference.

    Thread Starter adk0212

    (@adk0212)

    It appears that my web host (SourceForge) has the classic WP-Cron issue where the web server cannot resolve its own URL, a capability which WP-Cron requires to function. I set up a real cron job on a server of my own to periodically tickle WP-Cron remotely on my sourceforge site. That has got WP-Cron working properly and Cyan Backup along with it.

    Plugin Author Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    Good to know, thanks.

    Dang, I seem to be having this same issue now – but I’m already hitting my wp-cron (hosted on a web-host) from my home-server every 10 minutes.

    Current server time: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 @ 6:57 PM
    Next backup scheduled for: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 @ 3:00 AM

    Other plugins I am using that rely on wp-cron are all working fine, so I’m hoping that just disabling and enabling schedule as suggested will fix my issue..

    Plugin Author Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    Let me know if it doesn’t, you can also use the above mentioned plugin to take a closer look at what’s in your cron table.

    I figured it out – it was my .htaccess from BulletProof Security blocking wget from my home-server from hitting the wp-cron of my webhost!

    (My crap webhost doesn’t provide Cron, so I use Task Scheduler and wget on my Windows home-server to hit wp-cron.. mehh.. it works..)

    I didn’t open a new thread since I got it figured out, figured I’d leave a note here though.

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