chiron34

Hello PTaubman, I turned off the database backup function, which stopped the backup being made every minute. I have always received two copies of the email report, and this is continuing. I only discovered the problem when I got an automatic warning that my website had exceeded its size limit. My website is hosted on a server owned by my son. So he went into the back-end and discovered these constant back-ups. He also has no answer as to why this fault has occurred.

I was waiting to see if someone had an answer, but the answer may be to disable the plugin and re-install a fresh copy.

Any thoughts on that approach?

Graham Segal
Ipswich, Queensland
Australia

Thank you. Your help is appreciated.

Further to the problem outlined on this forum on 16 July 2016, I went back to MailPoet to see if I could get the mail-out going. This time, I got the following errr message, but again, MailPoet does not advise how to fix the problem. Here is the error message: Total of batch: 6 / 70
The Send Process stopped because there are too many errors.
We kept all non delivered emails in the queue, so you will be able to resume the send process later.
Please verify your mail configuration and make sure you can send a test of this email.
If you recently, successfully, sent a lot of emails, those errors may also be due to your server limitations.

1 : Error Sending Message For Sale & Purchase: Exploration Permits held by Kondor Gold P/L for areas containing strong Gold & Antimony resources are up for sale by the Owners to [3rd party email redacted] | Bad username / password => Next try in 0 minutes.

2 : Error Sending Message For Sale & Purchase: Exploration Permits held by Kondor Gold P/L for areas containing strong Gold & Antimony resources are up for sale by the Owners to [3rd party email redacted] | Bad username / password => Next try in 0 minutes.

3 : Error Sending Message For Sale & Purchase: Exploration Permits held by Kondor Gold P/L for areas containing strong Gold & Antimony resources are up for sale by the Owners to [3rd party email redacted] | Bad username / password => Next try in 0 minutes.

4 : Error Sending Message For Sale & Purchase: Exploration Permits held by Kondor Gold P/L for areas containing strong Gold & Antimony resources are up for sale by the Owners to [3rd party email redacted] | Bad username / password => Next try in 0 minutes.

5 : Error Sending Message For Sale & Purchase: Exploration Permits held by Kondor Gold P/L for areas containing strong Gold & Antimony resources are up for sale by the Owners to [3rd party email redacted] | Bad username / password => Next try in 0 minutes.

6 : Error Sending Message For Sale & Purchase: Exploration Permits held by Kondor Gold P/L for areas containing strong Gold & Antimony resources are up for sale by the Owners to [3rd party email redacted] | Bad username / password => Next try in 0 minutes.

…end error msg.

I hope someone can shed a bit of light on this for me.

Graham

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TJ,

Since I updated BWPS a month ago, the DB backup function has been working normally. Perhaps that leads to an option for you to delete the current install and install it afresh. As I am not a techy in these matters, I’m afraid that I am unable to suggest anything else.

chiron34

gh0stshell.

I didn’t really reconfigure anything. After the install, I just reset the backup email address and the frequency of backup records. Earlier, I had this set for 1 day, but this time I set it to 24 hours.

I don’t know if that helps you or not.

chiron34

Hi, all

I would just like to advise that after many weeks with no backups from BWPS, BWPS notified a plugin update to version 3.5.2. After I installed the update and reconfigured the Backup section in Settings, the Backup function started to work again. My fingers are crossed, I am touching wood, but everything has now been working for nine days.

chiron34

Handoko,

I was on the point of installing BackWPup as the alternative to BackUpWordPress when I noticed that Better WP Security had a plugin update ready to install. After I completed the install, I reset the backup configuration and guess what? The backup function is now working again. At least it has been working normally for a few days now.

So lets hope that everything will be OK from now on. Better WP Security developers may have quietly sorted this problem without creating any controversy.

chiron34

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Handoko,

I followed your checklist. However, on BackupWordPress activation, I got this error message:

BackUpWordPress has detected a problem. wp-cron.php is returning a 403 Forbidden response which could mean cron jobs aren’t getting fired properly. BackUpWordPress relies on wp-cron to run scheduled back ups. See the FAQ for more details.

I went to FAQ and got the following:

What do I do if I get the wp-cron error message

The issue is that your wp-cron.php is not returning a 200 response when hit with a http request originating from your own server, it could be several things, most of the time it’s an issue with the server / site and not with BackUpWordPress.

Some things you can test are.

Are scheduled posts working? (They use wp-cron too).
Are you hosted on Heart Internet? (wp-cron is known not to work with them).
If you click manual backup does it work?
Try adding define( ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true ); to yourwp-config.php`, do automatic backups work?
Is your site private (I.E. is it behind some kind of authentication, maintenance plugin, .htaccess) if so wp-cron won’t work until you remove it, if you are and you temporarily remove the authentication, do backups start working?

If you have tried all these then feel free to contact support.

Info:

Are scheduled posts working? <strong>I don’t know yet. This is first activation. Have to wait 24 hours.</strong>
Are you hosted on Heart Internet? (wp-cron is known not to work with them). <strong>No</strong>
If you click manual backup does it work? <strong>I did two manual backups. The first was just after activation and resulted in the error message. After reading FAQ, I did another manual backup. The error message did not disappear. Please note the great disparity in size between the two database files, which I detail below.</strong>
Try adding define( ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true ); to yourwp-config.php`, do automatic backups work? I am presently not in a position to do this.
Is your site private? No

Backup Info:
2 backups completed Size Type Actions
May 13, 2013 – 9:37 PM 11 MB Database and Files Download | Delete
May 13, 2013 – 9:30 PM 116 MB Database and Files Download | Delete

It’s now half an hour since I did the last manual backup, so I thought I would run it again. I did. The error message is still there but the file size is still 11 MB, the same as the 9.37 test. Could this be only a glitch problem somehow connected with the 116 MB reading for the first manual backup?

Handoko, what can you suggest that I could do here? Should I just let it run for 24 hours and see what develops. In the meantime, I can download backup files from my Theme, which is what I have been doing for the recent past.

Re: But then these other functions may not be working properly. What other things that is not working properly? Please tell us,

I was not actually saying anything was wrong. I was simply saying that I did not have the knowledge to know if any of the other Better WP Security functions were working correctly or not.

kind regards,

chiron34

szepe.viktor,

Thanks for that info. I appreciate that you have taken the trouble to look at this problem for me. Unfortunately, my computer skill levels are not good enough to carry out these checks on my own. I really need a checklist to do tasks of this nature because I am over 70 years young (unkind people say ‘old’) and therefore, I was not brought up on a diet of computers and the ‘interweb’.

kind regards,

chiron34

Handoko,

Many thanks for your very useful and prompt reply. I do agree with your philosophy. I will get in touch outside of this forum. Perhaps there is some way that I can help you (and of course others).

sincerely,

chiron34

Handoko,

I have not received a copy of a database backup file for a few weeks now. I am using BWPS 3.4.10. The plugin still says that my last databae file was generated yesterday and the next will be created tomorrow, as expected. The files attached to an email just never turn up in my inbox.

I just tried to manually create a database back up file and got this error message:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/bizdocs/public_html/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/inc/backup.php on line 92

I am a novice in the webdev field so I don’t fully understand the implications of the error message. If this is in your area of expertise, I would appreciate some pointers as to how to fix this problem.

As far as I can tell, other BWPS plugin functions seem to be working because I keep getting regular File Lockout Notices. But then these other functions may not be working properly. I don’t know to check these other functions and there is no built-in self test.

Lastly, from your experience, can I run both BackWPup and Better WP Security at the same time without any problems.

I would like to commend you for the way you try to help people. I personally wonder why we bother to support the developer here, when there seems to a total lack of customer service on giving advice on the very basic BWPS operations. I actually posted this problem three months ago and am still waiting for a reply. It’s probably on forum page 30 plus by now, so it will never be addressed.

kind regards,

chiron34.

sincerely,

chiron34

Hi,

I just want to report that I’m having similar problems. I have not received a copy of a database backup file for a few weeks now. I am using BWPS 3.4.8. The plugin still says that my last databae file was generated yesterday and the next will be created tomorrow, as expected. The files just never turn up in my inbox.

I just tried to manually create a database back up file and got this error message:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/bizdocs/public_html/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/inc/backup.php on line 92

I am a novice in the webdev field so would appreciate some pointers as to how to fix this problem.

As far as I can tell, other BWPS plugin functions seem to be working because I keep getting regular File Lockout Notices.

sincerely,

chiron34

I can’t imagine what the difficulty can be in explaining how to understand the File Change Warnings Notices.

Today I received this notice, with the accompanying schedule of changes that is too large to include here:

A file (or files) on your site have been changed. Please review the report below to verify changes are not the result of a compromise.
Scan Time: Thursday, October 25th 10:27 am UTC
Files Added: 80
Files Deleted: 0
Files Modified: 899
Memory Used: 0 MB

As I have been offline for nearly 24 hours, the period covered by this warning report, I don’t understand how 80 files could have been added or 899 files could have been modified.

I cannot see any problems with the operation of my site. Does anybody have a practical explanation for this? Is this an internal quirk of the Better WP Security plugin?

I would like to support pantone on this question. I was just about to post the exact same question and was researching the question when I discovered pantone’s question on page 4. In addition pantone;s as yet unresolved question, would you mind if I added the following related query: does Better WP Security record user names anywhere that is accessible to site owners so that we can keep tabs on user names that appear regularly or frequently and therefore become candidates for banning?

This raises another point where bit51 would like we posters to research our questions before posting to see if our question has already been answered.

While that is a reasonable request when there is only a small number of pages, it is getting unreasonable to have to examine 15 or more pages. And what happens in three months time when the number of pages could well be doubled? There needs to be some restructuring of this Forum for both convenience and ease of finding specific topics.

Perhaps this could be a longer term Forum project, although the longer it is ignored, the harder it will get.

gcampton,

Thanks for your practical advice. I should have realised this myself when I started my project a couple of months ago. But as I am not very experienced in this webdev game, the thought never occurred to me. That was maybe because I was building the site live, and influenced by all the scare stories that abound around in the cyberworld to frighten newbies like me.

I’m almost fished now; a couple of days should see me flying solo.

One question. Do you use XCloner alone or in conjunction with Better WP Security. From a quick look at the XCloner site with my untrained eye, it seems to be a backup program, not a security program. Your advice would very helpful.

chiron34