Thanks for filling up my 100GB VPS

  • Resolved bheadrick

    (@bheadrick)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Long story short, the option to only keep the latest X backups is only successful in keeping the latest X compressed copies, but leaves the original uncompressed files on the disk

    https://screencast.com/t/jsUwOBxyV

    https://screencast.com/t/83QILiX5j

    I didn’t realize this was even an option.

    This is a security plugin, not a backup plugin.

    Please consider hiring a UX pro.

    This db backup option I had to get to through an obscure link under the database security section.

    I always thought that was just a link to a recommended backup plugin (which I already have one, so why click it ever) – I only discovered it when I went googling and landed on some old tutorial video.

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  • Hi,

    I didn’t realize this was even an option.

    This is a security plugin, not a backup plugin.

    So you are saying you had never activated the database backup option in the plugin and still the plugin created backups?

    Btw. the option to keep only X latest copies does not differentiate between zip and sql files. It loops through all files in the backup directory that have “database-backup” in their name and attempts to remove all but X recent ones (based on file modification time).

    Cheers,
    ?eslav

    Thread Starter bheadrick

    (@bheadrick)

    Well, I’m sure someone did at some point – the site existed and was using this plugin before I came on the scene.

    And yeah, it does differentiate between sql and zip – the screenshot I posted proves it.

    Not exactly. Your screenshot shows that till 14th Sep, the backup procedure has been working correctly (or at least I assume that, because I don’t know what your backup settings are): There’s been one .zip file created every week and only the most recent two backup files has been kept. Since 21st Sep things went wild: backup file has been created every hour, no .sql file has been zipped and automatic deletion of old backup files failed too.

    The question is what caused this change in behavior? Did you updated the plugin at some point between 14th and 21st Sep? Was there a change in your environment (change in php.ini settings, active PHP extensions or similar)? Without further details, I can only guess :/

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