Old backups not deleted

@henk-barreveld
please give me your debug information ( BackWPUp-> Settings -> Infomation tab -> press Get Debug Info )
Also, could you please try to create a whole new job and set it to Dropbox too see if the old backups got deleted?

@duongcuong96

Debug information from BackWPUp > Settings > Infomation > Get Debug Info below.

Created and ran new job that backs up to the same folder on Dropbox: new file created, no old file deleted.

Thank you for your help; hope this is useful

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WordPress version: 4.9.5
BackWPup version: 3.4.4
PHP version: 7.1.16 (64bit)
MySQL version: 5.6.36-82.1-log
cURL version: 7.53.0
cURL SSL version: OpenSSL/1.0.2k
WP-Cron url: https://bcstar.nl/wp-cron.php
Server self connect: Response Test O.K.
Document root: /home/bcstar31/public_html
Temp folder: /home/bcstar31/public_html/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-566b45-temp/
Log folder: /home/bcstar31/backups/logs/
Server: Apache
Operating System: Linux
PHP SAPI: cgi-fcgi
Current PHP user: bcstar31
Maximum execution time: 300 seconds
Alternative WP Cron: Off
Disabled WP Cron: Off
CHMOD Dir: 0755
Server Time: 13:56
Blog Time: 15:56
Blog Timezone: Europe/Amsterdam
Blog Time offset: 2 hours
Blog language: en-US
MySQL Client encoding: utf8
PHP Memory limit: 768M
WP memory limit: 40M
WP maximum memory limit: 768M
Memory in use: 8.00 MB
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@henk-barreveld
go to BackWPUp -> Settings -> Logs -> Logging Level -> Debug(not translated ). Re-run the job again and give me latest debug log file.
You can get latest backup log file at BackWpUp -> Logs.
Also, please give me all screenshots of your job config.

@duongcuong96

Sorry, I have been away. I now have a zip-file with 11 screenshots of the job configuration and a debug log file. Please let me know how to send it to you.

@henk-barreveld)
You can using online image storage service and post the image links in here ??

Yes, of course, but the screenshots and logfile contain some security-sensitive information that I do not want to make available through a public media like the WordPress support pages.

The archive name appears to be the issue.

backwpup_%hash%_[whatever] is the old style name and SHOULD auto-delete.

backwpup_[whatever]_%hash%_[whatever] will not auto-delete because the hash has to be the second token when the name begins with “backwpup” (as I understand it).

[whatever]_%hash%_[whatever] does not seem to auto-delete, but should (as I understand it).

[whatever]_%hash% auto-deletes.

@henk-barreveld
you can hide/remove your server name and server path before upload it in here ??
also, as @trsmith3 said, what is your archive file name?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by happyAnt.

Hello,

Ok, this has been SOLVED, thanks to @trsmith3.

I indeed used an archive name of the format backwpup_[whatever]_%hash%, to be precise: backwpup_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%i-%s_%hash%. I used this so that sorting the file names in alphabetical order implied sorting them in time.

I changed this into: backwpup_%hash%_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%i-%s. For testing I also changed the number of backups to be kept to 2 (both local folder and Dropbox) and ran the backup job four times. I found that now only the two most recent copies are kept; earlier backups (with the same file name format) are automatically deleted.

So this is indeed a problem with file names – undocumented, I think; I only see that ‘%hash% must be included anywhere in the archive name’.

Thank you!