Updarft backup fails

Most hosts allow at least 30 or 60 seconds if not more… it would be good to hear from your hosting company though. The script is either dying with an error (so we want to see the error log), or it’s being automatically killed for running over time (very early).

If you donate $20 or more (https://david.dw-perspective.org.uk/donate) then I can add in new code to make the creating of the backup resumable at an earlier stage. Yours is the first time I’ve seen someone’s (apparently) run out of resources before finishing dumping out the DB.

The only item showing up in the error logs upon running the plugin are:

[Sat Jan 05 15:55:49 2013] [warn] [client 184.168.239.1] mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 120 seconds
[Sat Jan 05 15:55:49 2013] [error] [client 184.168.239.1] Premature end of script headers: wp-cron.php

I will likely donate (there is not a $20 option) as I expect the response from my hosting provider to be along the lines of ‘it is not our problem’ that and this is great plugin, beats having (and remember) to go in and manually backup the DB then upload it the cloud storage. It does run beautifully on my secondary site. I have some other WP sites I should add it to as well that don’t get updated much, but still having a backup is always a good idea.

Thank you… my PayPal for a direct donation is: [email protected]

I’m not online on Sundays, and it’s just gone 11pm Saturday here… so don’t assume I’ve vanished if you don’t hear from me again until Monday!

David

It works !! thank you for fixing

As expected the (first) response from my hosting provider was as I expected. I replied back asking specifically if the script is being terminated for running too long or running out of resources. Meanwhile, later today I am going to try this plugin on another (I have 12) WordPress site which has a much smaller DB, but a lot of media and see what happens.

Erwin,

Glad that it now works for you. Please consider a donation: https://david.dw-perspective.org.uk/donate – current total is 14,000 downloads, $30 donated.

David