simonapbrown

I marked this as resolved…but that is not the case. The Learndash plugin conflict was a red herring and not the root cause.

Have applied the latest update to Updraft but the issue remains. Scheduled backups are appearing as cron jobs, but do not execute.

Any and all suggestions to resolve this would be most welcome.

Quick update – Learndash have acknowledged this issue as a bug scheduled for fix in next release.

Thanks for your assistance with this – much appreciated.

• This reply was modified 3 weeks ago by simonapbrown.

DISABLE_WP_CRON is not present in any config file.

The host has confirmed Cron has not been disabled.

So everything says it should work. Except it doesn’t. Was working normally until last plugin update was applied.

Any and all suggestions are most welcome.

Cron entries before changing schedule to manual:

Cron entries after setting database backup to manual:

And finally the cron entries after scheduling database and files to run every 2 hours and 1 hour:

So it all looks fine…except none of them execute.

We host online learning. The courses and their content (files) are fairly static and are backed up manually. The database is far more dynamic, with student progress being tracked (among other things).

I have reverted DB backup to manual and then reinstated hourly backups:

This screenshot is from Cron Manager and filtered for Updraft:

So, checked the backups and adding this:

define(‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true);

to wp_config.php has not resolved the issue. Scheduler is still failing to trigger a backup, but manual trigger and running the cron job manually will work.

Any and all additional suggestions are most welcome…

Thanks for the suggestion. Have added the line and will monitor the outcome.