Double daily backups

Hi,

It sounds like you may have duplicate schedule, can you do the following;

In your hosting , go to Site Tools->Site->MySQL->phpMyAdmin, open your database

Search the database for any table named wp_options’ (your prefix may be different

In the table, select ‘Search’ and enter the following: 

Column name: ‘option_name’ 

Operator: ‘LIKE %…%’ 

Value: ‘updraft’

This will bring up all UpdraftPlus options in the table. Delete these rows

In the same table, Search for rows with the option_name = ‘cron’. Delete them

This should remove any extra schedules from your DB

Can you then set up your schedule again?

Hello Vupdraft,

First of all, thank you for the fast answers!

Just a couple of questions before altering my database: most of the “updraft” recurrencies (the total is 473) are “updraft_lock_nnnnnnn”, but several of them looks like settings definition. Is it correct to delete all of them?

Looking instead for “cron” recurrencies, none of them looks like (by the name/description) related to updraft (but some other plugins are listed, like Matomo): Is it correct in this case too to delete all?

Again thanks!

Orangedam

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by orangedam.

Hi,

First of all, with any DB modification, please make sure you have a backup first!

Can you wipe all of your settings in the Advanced tools tab and then deinstall and remove the plugin Then remove any left over tables via the above instructions.

Only delete the items related to Updraft.

Download and install a fresh copy of the plugin (when you install the plugin again, it will create all of the tables it needs)

Done all as suggested (previous backup, uninstalled plugin, wiped tables), but still perform twice daily backups. Probably there is still something somewhere in the tables which causes this behavior (maybe not containing “updraft” in the name?). What about updating the plugin so that the removal really does all the cleaning job?

Orangedam