Backups not moving to Google Drive – local server filling up

Hi,

Please can you provide a link to your log file for the problematic backup? (You can download it from the “Existing Backups” tab of your UpdraftPlus settings page).

It’ll be too long to paste into the forum here, but you can download it to your computer, and share it with Dropbox, or paste it in pastebin.com, or any similar service, and post the link here.

Best wishes,
David

Hi David,

Thank you for your quick response. Here is a link to the log file:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Z7eiK_aKM6UHNBUDIzWGhsRkE/view?usp=sharing

This was the last full backup taken that never got copied to Google Drive.

Hi,

You’re running out of disk space whilst attempting the backup. Please see this page for info on why disk space is needed – https://updraftplus.com/faqs/how-much-free-disk-space-do-i-need-to-create-a-backup/ .

To minimise space usage (assuming you can’t just get more space), go to the ‘expert’ section at the bottom of the ‘Settings’ tab, and reduce the ‘split’ size down to 100Mb – then save settings, and try a fresh backup (though, you might also want to manually clear out any .tmp files from wp-content/updraft, as otherwise it’s theoretically possible for some to hang around for up to 12 hours and use up space in the mean-time).

David

Hi David,

The reason I ran out of disk space is because the previous large backups hadn’t transferred.

Kind regards
Chris

Hi Chris,

So – if you move that one over manually, will that free up enough space?

To know why the previous one did not transfer, I’d need to see the log file from that backup – I can only say that the log file I’ve seen is from a backup that failed because of lack of space; but to know why the earlier backup failed, I’d need to see that one too.

David

Hi David,

I manually downloaded the backups earlier and have deleted them from the local server, and I have just started a backup.

Chris