Unable to back up database after migration from Joomla

  • Resolved Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I have 1.19.3 of the plugin on WP 3.6.1. I’m trying to import data from a Joomla 1.5.26. It’s not a huge number of posts (about 230), but many of them are quite lengthy.

    After a lot of server timeouts (not the plugin’s fault, obviously!) I managed to get all the articles and media imported. However, I’m now having trouble backing up the database.

    I have two backup utilities, which are both unable to back up the imported data. UpdraftPlus keeps timing out on the _posts table. The database backup feature in Better WP Security just goes to a white screen. If it were just one of these plugins, I would think it was a plugin conflict, but they both seem to be hanging on the imported posts data.

    To confirm that, I tried deleting all the imported content and running the backup again. This time there was no problem. I ran the import again, tried backing up — same problem.

    Any suggestions? I’m not sure what to do next. Obviously, I’m going to have a serious problem if I can no longer back up the database!

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Kerfred

    (@kerfred)

    I suggest you to use phpMyAdmin to export your database.
    If you want to do regular backups automatically, I suggest you the WordPress plugin BackWPup. It has got many options.

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    But why would the imported database table cause backup errors at all? That’s the part I’m not getting. Is there a way to clean that up?

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Okay, I think I solved the problem. What it appears happened is that after importing, the database desperately needed to be optimized (particularly because the import failed once and I had to delete everything and start over). There was so much junk that optimizing reduced the size of that table by 64 MB.

    I would suggest that people make a point of optimizing their database after completing the import (and to definitely do that if they have this kind of a problem). For future releases, it might also be worth considering adding a feature to optimize the database from the plugin itself, especially for users who aren’t comfortable with phpMyAdmin. I don’t know how feasible that is, but it would be a nice addition.

    Thanks!

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