Old backups not deleting

* absolutely not a solution. The problem still exists, and having only date and hash in the filename is completely impractical for me (and presumably many others). I was just posting that as something which may help you to troubleshoot the *actual* problem.

thanks @duongcuong96 but the same problem, 9 webs every day in the same folder (and 17 in another folder). I need to identify every one for a name.
as @marknjones, I will be very Happy to try out any beta fixes for you or something like this.
thanks very much.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by asisrodriguez.

OK so I had a bit of time today, and have found that if I delete the old job, and create a brand new one, I can add an identifier to the beginning of the filename and the old backup files are deleted correctly.

Bit of a pain in the neck having to do this on 50 sites, but better than manually deleting backups every single day. Also a bit frustrating: a few weeks ago @duongcuong96 suggested re-saving jobs – and explicitly said no need to create new jobs so I didn’t try it then – but that did not work.

thanks @marknjones I’ll try and back here tomorrow. at last, even the “hard” work, is a solution. thanks.

thanks @marknjones It works????? in the 26 sites ??
have a nice Christmas times.

@asisrodriguez,
@marknjones
Ok, so I will close this issue in here.
And again, sorry for any inconvenient happens to your guys after file naming changed ??
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Notice to all thinking you have to recreate all your jobs:
It is not necessary to delete the old job, and create a brand new one. I found this out because doing that did not resolve the issue for me.

The cause of the issue is in the formatting of the Archive name; which is, essentially, tokens separated by underscores.

In my case, I had “backwpup_database_%Y-%m-%d_%hash%” defining the Archive name. The first token would be “backwpup” and the second token, “database”, etc.

This is a problem due to the manner in which the function ‘owns_backup_archive’ in class.job.php (@ line 609) handles the tokens.

It assumes that if the Archive name starts with “backwpup”, then the old-style hash is being used, and it expects the hash to be the second token. If the hash is not the second token, then the function returns false (ie. the file is not owned by BackWPup) and the file is ignored.

* Simply removing “backwpup” from the beginning of the Archive name solved the problem.

So, as I see it, either the code needs to be changed, or further information needs to be added to “Note: In order for backup file tracking to work, %hash% must be included anywhere in the archive name” on the ‘backwpupeditjob’ page informing that:

If the Archive name starts with “backwpup”, then the “%hash%” token must immediately follow it, ie. “backwpup_%hash%[_ …]”.

thaks very much @duongcuong96 your plugin is fantastic???
and thanks (but late for me) @terryg-1
Merry Christmas for all.