Error – Out of Memory

Hello,

I am also getting this error trying to backup all files to Dropbox. The backup file DOES arrive at Dropbox, however an error is still present.

I do not have any errors backing up to the server when I run a non-Dropbox backup.

Any help/a solution would be greatly appreciated. The backup file size was around 125mb. Here’s the log:

2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup version 2.1.4, WordPress version 3.2.1 Copyright ? 2011 Daniel Hüsken
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup job: 3. Files Only (Weekly); FILE
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup cron: 0 5 * * 0; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 @ 05:00
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: BackWPup job strated manualy
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: PHP ver.: 5.2.16; cgi-fcgi; Linux
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: MySQL ver.: 5.1.56
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: curl ver.: 7.21.0; OpenSSL/0.9.8b
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: Temp folder is: /tmp/.backwpup_2914660242/
2011/08/30 17:19.50: [INFO]: Backup file is: /home/geoffsha/backups/geoffshaw.com.au_files_weekly_2011-08-30_17-19-50.zip
2011/08/30 17:19.50: 1. try for make list of files to backup....
2011/08/30 17:19.51: 2488 files with 141.75 MB to backup
2011/08/30 17:19.51: 1. try to create backup zip (PclZip) archive...
2011/08/30 17:20.01: Backup zip archive create done
2011/08/30 17:20.01: Archive size is 125.09 MB
2011/08/30 17:20.01: 1. Try to sending backup file to DropBox...
2011/08/30 17:20.02: Authed with DropBox from Steve Holland
2011/08/30 17:20.02: 48.08 GB free on DropBox
2011/08/30 17:20.02: Upload to DropBox now started...
2011/08/30 17:20.02: Memory increased from 256M to 256M
2011/08/30 17:20.02: [ERROR]Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 131165517 bytes)
2011/08/30 17:20.02: 1. Script stop! Will started again now!
2011/08/30 17:20.02: 2. Try to sending backup file to DropBox...
2011/08/30 17:20.03: Authed with DropBox from Steve Holland
2011/08/30 17:20.03: 48.08 GB free on DropBox
2011/08/30 17:20.03: Upload to DropBox now started...
2011/08/30 17:20.03: Memory increased from 256M to 256M

As you can see it appears to be a memory issue, however I can tell you it would definitely not require more than 256mb of memory just to transfer a file to Dropbox…

About 5 minutes later I then get an email error once the file has arrived within Dropbox.

Any ideas?

Okay, I just tried it again and this time selected Tar Gzip instead of just ZIP and did not get the error.

2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup version 2.1.4, WordPress version 3.2.1 Copyright ? 2011 Daniel Hüsken
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup job: 4. Files Only (Weekly); FILE
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup cron: 0 5 * * 0; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 @ 05:00
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: BackWPup job strated manualy
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: PHP ver.: 5.2.16; cgi-fcgi; Linux
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: MySQL ver.: 5.1.56
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: curl ver.: 7.21.0; OpenSSL/0.9.8b
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: Temp folder is: /tmp/.backwpup_2914660242/
2011/08/30 17:53.00: [INFO]: Backup file is: /home/geoffsha/backups/geoffshaw.com.au_db_weekly_2011-08-30_17-53-00.tar.gz
2011/08/30 17:53.00: 1. try for make list of files to backup....
2011/08/30 17:53.01: 2489 files with 141.75 MB to backup
2011/08/30 17:53.01: 1. try to create tar.gz archive file...
2011/08/30 17:53.16: tar.gz archive creation done
2011/08/30 17:53.16: Archive size is 124.01 MB
2011/08/30 17:53.16: 1. Try to sending backup file to DropBox...
2011/08/30 17:53.17: Authed with DropBox from Steve Holland
2011/08/30 17:53.17: 47.96 GB free on DropBox
2011/08/30 17:53.17: Upload to DropBox now started...
2011/08/30 17:53.17: Memory increased from 256M to 256M

Weird…