Delete of dropbox causes reinstall of wordpress on Bluehost

  • Resolved StuCorlett

    (@stucorlett)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I had a wordpress website with updraft plus installed on it and connected to my dropbox account for backup. Recently I deleted the dropbox (remote) folder on my computer by accident. Then I returned it from the trash. When I went to the website it was backing up, the website had disappeared and it was replaced with a brand new wordpress install. I am using Bluehost and they say they have no idea what caused the spontaneous reinstall, and blame the website. I suppose it could be a hacker, but its VERY coincidental. I am thinking that there may be a problem with the updraft plus dropbox connection that triggered this somehow. I can’t logically see how this could happen, but then again strange things happen in the world of bits and bytes… For the updraft techs it might be worth checking for a bug at that level. Meanwhile I will just reinstall and use by updraft plus backup to save me from this crash…. Very odd though. Bluehost says they have no activity logs for my hosting account and so cannot tell how or why the reinstall happened. So I cannot tell if updraft caused it, Bluehost caused it or a hacker caused it…. all thoughts welcome.

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  • Plugin Author David Anderson / Team Updraft

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi Stu,

    This isn’t how the Dropbox protocol works… When you delete something in your Dropbox, Dropbox doesn’t notify the original creator of that something. i.e. No communication goes back to a website to tell it anything. There is no “updraft plus dropbox connection” to be broken, or that can trigger something else happening when it breaks. Neither does UD poll Dropbox to check what happened to its backups. If you delete them, it remains entirely ignorant of that fact until you try to restore them.

    Best wishes,
    David

    Thread Starter StuCorlett

    (@stucorlett)

    Thanks David. Yes I think the problem was not with updraft, it was just co-incidental and the actual problem was happening with the server

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