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root plugins dir had .DS_Store in it, deleted that but made no diff.
plugin top level directory is 755
checked all the plugin dirs, they were 755 except for;
s2member-files : 705
s2member-logs : 705

First I changed these to 755 recursive, tried again – backup failed
Then I removed s2member completly as I dont use it, tried again – backup failed.
Excluded plugins dir, tried again – backup completed ok
Included plugins dir, tried again – backup failed

It always seems to fail at same place, percent bar about 75% and message ‘Archiving SQL Dump..”
When it fails it had that message showing for a little while.
Is it possible to get a debug output to see what its doing when that message is showing ?

Have noticed a couple of things, maybe bugs ?

The ‘failed’ message pops up very briefly a few times whilst backup is running and copying files. Its only for a split second and does not stop the process. This happens following a backup fail, clear status, update and try backup again.

Also, after changing / updating options and click on Backups in the menu, sometimes the animation and message kicks in by itself so it looks like it started doing a backup, it quickly jumps to Archiving SQL Dump… with about 75% indicator and just sits there forever. ‘Backup Now!’ button is disabled so have to click options again and then update again but the same thing happens again until status.log is deleted.

Something really weird happening with regard to plugins directory;
Complete plugins dir excluded – backup completes ok
All individual plugins subdirs excluded – backup completes ok
Include any one of the plugins subdirs – backup fails

I have tried it with different ones included, rest excluded and backup fails every time.

I cannot think what else to try, any ideas ?

Is there a quick way to delete the backup directory structure from failed backup ?
It takes ages in FileZilla.

I will check by excluding each one in turn, will take a while..

I put extra button to update near top of page because tedious having to scroll down page to press update after changing just an exclusion.

I edited page-options.php like this;

('Add WP-Includes Dir', $this->textdomain);?>" onClick="excluded.value = jQuery.trim( excluded.value ) + '\n<?php echo addslashes($this->chg_directory_separator($abspath . "wp-includes/", FALSE) )?>';">?
					</td>
				</tr>
<!-- extra button start here -->
<tr><td><p style="margin-top:1em;"><input type="submit" name="options_update" class="button-primary" value="<?php _e('Update Options', $this->textdomain);?>" class="button" /></p></td>
</tr>
<!-- extra button end here -->
			</tbody>
		</table>

		<h3><?php _e('Log Options', $this->textdomain);?></h3>

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I tried increasing it in php.ini and wp-config.php and made no difference : set_time_limit(120);

I excluded plugins directory and it worked fine, zip file is 37 Mb.

I exclude most everything else except plugins dir and it fails.
Something in plugins dir is causing it to fail.

Also, there is bug : when it fails, cannot do another backup because of status, go to options and tick box to clear active backup status and update options. Then click Backups to try again, but after a few secs, the button disable, animation spinning, percent indicator back to the point previously where it failed and shows message “Archiving SQL Dump…”. This will not go away until go into the backup directory and manually delete the files left over by the failed backup attempt. When they are deleted and click Backup to try again, all is ok.

Maybe there should be a button to delete the files when it fails ?

I have plenty of free disk space available. I got to 9 failed backups, incomplete zip files of 11Mb and 9 directories full of site copy before I deleted the lot to try again.

I am on shared hosting, I cannot see the PHP error log.

What value should be script execution time?