WP-DB-Backup Problems

  • Resolved slshimerdla

    (@slshimerdla)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    So, I have the whole thing set up. It is detecting the locations for mysql and mysqldump no problem. It is writing to the directory no problem. It’s actually creating files.

    Here’s the problem, though. When I view those files, the ONLY content to them is the plugin’s header area:

    mysqldump  Ver 8.23 Distrib 3.23.58, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)
By Igor Romanenko, Monty, Jani & Sinisa
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

...etc...

    And it stops after this line:

    Possible variables for option --set-variable (-O) are:
max_allowed_packet    current value: 25165824
net_buffer_length     current value: 1047551

    The backup SQL files (within wp-content/backup-db/)are all the same size, and are only 5.5KB each time.

    What on earth could be going wrong here? Is there a second file somewhere that is storing more data? The entire plugin looks like it’s working – everything says it’s fine everywhere that I look. If I hadn’t looked at the SQL files myself to know better, I’d think it was working fine.

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter slshimerdla

    (@slshimerdla)

    Okay, you know… I don’t think that’s the plugin’s header area, now that I’m reading it. I just assumed it was the plugin header, and that the content would be coming after it. But, it looks to be information on mysqldump. Which doesn’t make ANY sense to me, about why it would be showing that. I may have to head on over to the developer’s website and see if I can’t get some info from there.

    Still, if anyone has a clue in the meantime, please feel free to enlighten me!

    This site is being hosted through GoDaddy (ugh), and they’ve disallowed the use of cron jobs directly through their cron jobs interface to do mysqldump backups. They tell me in that using PHP to do a backup should still work, though, which is why I’m using this plugin. Maybe the problem is with GoDaddy somewhere, and they were wrong about the access, and this is what I get when it doesn’t work?

    Just for the sake of accuracy: this thread is not talking about the WP-DB-Backup plugin but some other backup plugin.

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