Backup Now Beginner Problems

Hi kiloj757,

I can’t follow those links, because they’re in your WP admin area, which requires login.

Google Drive is the trickiest method to set up. Dropbox is easiest – it requires nothing more than logging into the Dropbox website, so is about as easy as could be imagined.

One a backup is made, you can either download it via FTP from wp-content/updraft, or just (easier) click the button from the “Restore” section that will appear after you’ve made a backup in the UpdraftPlus dashboard page.

Yes, files and database are backed up.

If the site is totally destroyed, then you make a new WP install, and upload the backup files from your PC. See the various FAQs at updraftplus.com.

Best wishes,
David

Thank you.

You’re welcome!

David

I’m sorry but i had the same problem, I did a backup, but i have the message “you don’t have any backups completed yet” So, following the instructions David Anderson gave, how could I download the backup, if it never finished?

The last lines of the log file are:

0080.713 (9) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (205) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 4584.1 Kb)
0082.280 (9) A zip error occurred - check your log for more details.
0082.282 (9) ZipArchive::Close returned an error. List of files we were trying to add follows (check their permissions).
0082.290 (9) File: plugins/js_composer/assets/images/icons/elements/application-icon-large.png (exists: 1, size: 1472)

I tried making another backup, but i got this:

0000.057 (2) The backup directory (D:\Hosting\1234567\html/backup120713) is not writable.
0000.063 (2) Saving backup history
0000.092 (2) Resume backup (990ec962cc8f, 2): finish run
0000.094 (2) There were no more files that needed uploading; backup job is complete
0000.097 (2) There were errors in the uploads, so the 'resume' event is remaining scheduled
0000.100 (2) No email will be sent - this backup set was empty.
0000.103 (2) The backup has not finished; a resumption is scheduled within 5 minutes

So, how can I do a backup of my site?
Thanks,

Hi TitaSofia,

Please can you post the *entire* log?

Many thanks,
David

which one? the first one or the second one?
I also got a third one ??

Hi TitaSofia,

Just send the most recent one, but let the backup run for an hour first before getting it – it’s normal for things to stop-start, depending on the size of your website and the resources that your web host allows.

David

I got the first backup running for about 3 hours… is it normal?

This is the last one:

0000.000 () Opened log file at time: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:50:24 +0000
0000.017 () UpdraftPlus: 1.6.46 WP: 3.5.1 PHP: 5.3.6 (Windows NT P3NW8SHG226 6.0 build 6002 (Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition Service Pack 2) i586) MySQL: 5.0.96-log Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0 safe_mode: 0 max_execution_time: 900 memory_limit: 256M ZipArchive::addFile : Y
0000.030 () Free space on disk containing Updraft's temporary directory: 5875909 Mb
0000.054 () Tasks: Backup files: 1 (schedule: manual) Backup DB: 1 (schedule: manual)
0000.059 () Processed schedules. Tasks now: Backup files: 1 Backup DB: 1
0000.067 (0) Backup run: resumption=0, nonce=4ba3fe9e31bf, begun at=1373662224 (0s ago), job type=backup
0000.070 (0) Scheduling a resumption (1) after 300 seconds (1373662524) in case this run gets aborted
0000.075 (0) Creation of backups of directories: beginning
0000.163 (0) Beginning creation of dump of plugins
0000.186 (0) Checking if we have a zip executable available
0000.191 (0) Testing: /usr/bin/zip
0000.195 (0) Testing: /bin/zip
0000.200 (0) Testing: /usr/local/bin/zip
0000.203 (0) Testing: /usr/sfw/bin/zip
0000.207 (0) Testing: /usr/xdg4/bin/zip
0000.211 (0) Testing: /opt/bin/zip
0002.378 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (1) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 0 Kb)
0010.958 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (34) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 68.4 Kb)
0012.636 (0) Zip: backup_2013-07-12-1650_4ba3fe9e31bf-plugins.zip.tmp: 100 files added (on-disk size: 95.7 Kb)
0018.173 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (130) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 2403.8 Kb)
0020.155 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (1.4 Mb, 38 (167) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 2404.5 Kb)
0028.174 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 2 (181) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 3173.7 Kb)
0030.429 (0) Zip: backup_2013-07-12-1650_4ba3fe9e31bf-plugins.zip.tmp: 200 files added (on-disk size: 3179.6 Kb)
0034.807 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (208) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 3251.4 Kb)
0040.997 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (234) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 3433 Kb)
0047.876 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (261) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 3674.7 Kb)
0054.096 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (287) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 3757.5 Kb)
0055.925 (0) Zip: backup_2013-07-12-1650_4ba3fe9e31bf-plugins.zip.tmp: 300 files added (on-disk size: 3758.6 Kb)
0061.959 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (315) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 3914.8 Kb)
0065.190 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0.1 Mb, 67 (381) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 3918.8 Kb)
0073.223 (0) Adding batch to zip file: over 1.5 seconds have passed since the last write (0 Mb, 1 (399) files added so far); re-opening (prior size: 4075.4 Kb)

Hi Tina,

What’s normal depends on many things…

That last one has only just begun. Leave it an hour, and then post the log after that.

David

Thanks… I’ll do it again and tomorrow i’ll post the log in case i didn’t got the backup. Do you recomend I do a new topic?
Thanks

Hi TitaSofia,

A new topic is probably best – we won’t know if it’s the same problem as this one until we’ve got the log files.

David