Too many backups on a day

Hi @jacobslive, thanks for reaching out about this. I’m sorry to hear about the frustration, I know extra backups taking up disk space can be a real problem.

My first thought is that you may have Auto Updates with Auto Backup Before Update enabled, and you’re getting a lot of Plugin updates. This feature keeps your site safe by taking a backup, updating your plugins, and automatically reverting them if a fatal error occurs. This keeps your plugins up-to-date and secure, while preventing updates from taking your site down.

You can find out for sure by clicking View Details next to one of the extra backups, and then look for More info Show. When you click on “Show,” you’ll see a line that says Backup triggered by: followed by either Cron (scheduled), Plugin Update, or Manual.

You can disable these extra backups in Total Upkeep -> Settings -> Auto Updates.

Please let us know if you have any trouble getting this sorted out, we’re happy to help.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Jesse Owens. Reason: Fixing grammar mistake

Thank you Jess. Yes Auto Update was on for core WP and enabled plugins. All updates were triggered by “Auto Update”. Thanks a lot for your help.

Though I love the Auto Update feature, since on a VPS with limited disk-space I was worried about the frequent backups.

Glad I was able to figure this out with your help. Much appreciated!!!

I’m glad to hear that resolved the issue for you @jacobslive, and thanks for using Total Upkeep!