garyweldy

I’m not sure if I should create a new thread at this point, but here’s the latest…

So one one of my sites, it created about 30 backups roughly 3-5 minutes apart. There was another 4 days prior to that, that did the same thing, so it actually isn’t only happening during the weekend.

I checked all my sites and a lot of them don’t even have anything in the backups folder even though I received emails regarding the backup being completed.

I’m extremely concerned that they aren’t being stored in the folder and I’ve checked the folder destination and it’s correct.

Tried all this and I didn’t see anything helpful. Just some things about my sidebar, but nothing too threatening.

Does it have to be in the middle of rewriting the backups repeatedly?

This is happening to me as well. I have several WordPress sites that utilize this plugin. A few weeks ago one of the sites backed up about every 5 minutes the whole weekend and then a different site just did it again.

Oddly, both times, it happened on the weekends.

I just installed 7zip and was able to open the zip file.
Not sure why the Windows Explorer default program isn’t recognizing it.

Suppose I should have tried that to begin with.

Question – not being at all too familiar with SQL files, what does the SQL backup file contain? Is it just the database backup?

Recently, I was doing an audit on backups and we have our sites set to email is a backup every night.

I tried opening it and I am also getting the same error as david.
I’m using Windows 7 and Windows Explorer is trying to extract it, but gives the error. If I just double click the zip folder, it opens to show the contents but there are no contents.

I had someone go back through and August 2014, they can see the SQL files, but starting after that, they all appear to be blank and give the invalid error.

Oddly enough, I have a test site that I recently told to not only email me, but backup locally and when I look at the 2 backups it backed up locally, the file size is pretty hefty but again, downloading those files results in the same problem.

Just talked to my boss about it. I’m pretty sure I’ve been dealing with a phantom. [insert face palm]

Sorry for racking your brains for nothing, guys.

I recently started with the company and they had this test site, mqaweb.com/testing. There are actual sites based off this one so we have to test everything there first.

One day, I tried to access the FTP for it and wasn’t able to. So, I called up GoDaddy and they had me add it as a subscription within Plesk and then I was able to access the FTP for it.

When I accessed the FTP, it had all the wordpress stuff in it already, but it’s almost like this FTP directory I’m updating isn’t what I’m looking at on the web. I mean, I uploaded windex.htm but I’m getting a 404 error. That doesn’t make any sense to me.

So, right after I typed the above, I went into the FTP directory and looked at the index.html file. It’s completely different than what shows publicly (mqa logo). Obviously, I’m in the wrong directory, but it makes no sense as to where this directory I’m in came from because I didn’t create it.

I’ll have to kick this around. I don’t want to waste anyone’s time chasing a ghost.

Okay, hang on… let me go all the way back for you incase I’ve missed something.

Hm. There is an index.html file in that folder already.
I’m not sure if you specifically need me to upload something called index.html, but I uploaded windex.htm, so it’d be https://mqaweb.com/windex.htm and when I try and access it, I’m getting a 404 page.

Alright, another update and I’m going to apologize for my confusion in advance. I’m not much of a back end guy as I am a front end guy.

I talked to GoDaddy and explained my issue and asked them if they could flush the cache and they said that the domain in question is on a shared server. They didn’t really give much of a response besides those words. I tried asking them what that meant and the guy tried explaining it and basically suggested we move it to a dedicated server.

Honestly, I’m not familiar with the terminology, but the site was working perfectly fine up until last Thursday when I updated that plugin.

Did I just get a passive rep or is there something I need to do on my end? I’m still confused.

Will do. Thanks.

hey Wanderingbedou,

Thanks. I’ve deleted the /testing directory again and recreated it. I’ve added index.html to it, but am still not having any luck.

If it is indeed a caching issue, how do you dump it?

I’m not sure you’ll be able to access it, but it’s mqaweb.com/testing/

Hey Martin,

When I said I cleared my database out, I meant I went into my CPanel and dropped the database.

I did everything your directions said and just redid them step by step and I still get that same error.

So, I went into CPanel, dropped my database, went to my FTP, deleted my /testing directory where the wordpress site was stored and after it was deleted, I recreated /testing, moved a new wordpress install into that directory and ran the install but I get the same error instead.

Thanks twykr. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to resolve the issue.
I went into my cctm_data file and grabbed the information I had from the back up and plugged it in, but I just can’t seem to get rid of this error.