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Because I did not get any php error message logs, I tried something else: looking at the browser console messages:

POST https://ll555.net/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 400 (Bad Request)

This is consistently the same error no matter whether I try to update using my open website admin nor when I try to log in on a new browser.

However, the many detailed steps within are vastly different.

Thanks for the error log settings. I am lucky that the current old NAS is from Synology so all of that was easy to accomplish.

But I was not able to create an error that shows up in the log.

Assuming that I have all the settings correct, I did almost exactly as you showed but with a different volume no., it seems my problems are not created by php failures.

Permissions were more generous than they should be and not more restrictive.

James,
thanks for your suggestions.
I have not been able yet to test most of them yet but after a Elementor plug-in update yesterday the Appearance > Customize > Menus works properly. Whether that is related remains to be seen because Appearance > Menu still times out.

Thanks for all your replies but aside from protecting the login process I still would like to know how the hacker gets my admin name.

Unfortunately hat does not work. I get the “Access forbidden” message.

“You don’t have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read protected. Error 403”

This is an Apache 2.4.41 message

test3.local works on my PC perfectly.
I cannot reach test3.local from any other device on the network.

…unless you have the network resolving test3.local as the network IP address of the machine your XAMPP is installed on…

And how do I accomplish that?

I ran the backup again over night. Again 6.6 hrs.

Then I downloaded the zip file and again it did not work. The result was a 1,023 KB zip file that cannot be opened.
The file stored in the WP directory is again 20 GB, i.e. the download is NOT working.

Well, you never explained what causes the many restarts!

Almost 7 hours for a backup when competitors can do it in minutes is just not feasible as the site is still in the early stages and things will get worse.

The same applies to the download; that time is way too long if I can do it in minutes not using your download app.

I got into trying BackWPup based on a recommendation/tutorial by Elementor. That video shows using BackWPup when creating a staging environment by using “Local” and uploading the zip file into that local WP. That failed in my case because although it seems to load the zip file it does not recognize the sql file.
My suspicion is that this is a file naming problem but I don’t know what the proper file name is supposed to be and rerunning the backup, possibly several times, to figure out what is going on is just too time consuming.

OK, I uploaded the log file to my Dropbox. But how can I share w/o having an email from you?

Be it what it is, here are some facts of creating that backup:

[11-Jul-2020 19:35:27] Backup archive created.
[11-Jul-2020 19:35:27] Archive size is 19.19 GB.
[11-Jul-2020 19:35:27] 25596 Files with 19.39 GB in Archive.
[11-Jul-2020 19:35:27] Restart after 51 seconds.
[11-Jul-2020 19:35:28] DEPRECATED: Invalid characters passed for attempted conversion, these have been ignored
[11-Jul-2020 19:35:28] DEPRECATED: Invalid characters passed for attempted conversion, these have been ignored
[11-Jul-2020 19:35:28] DEPRECATED: Invalid characters passed for attempted conversion, these have been ignored
[11-Jul-2020 19:35:28] Job done in 23789 seconds.

That’s almost 7 hours!
And the reason seems to be that most of my /wp-content/uploads/folder/files have restarts like: Restart after 70 seconds up tp about 30+ times!

So instead of a couple of minutes the back-up took 6.6 hours.
I am running this web site for test purposes only on my PC: Windows 10 with XAMPP.

And there is another strange problem: the download of the finished job file does not work. The downloaded zip file in my “download” folder stays empty! This is really strange as the file /wp-content/uploads/backwpup-bb7406-backups/2020-07-11_12-58-59_D25XIBRM03.zip has a size of 19.39 GB and I can copy and paste it into my “download” folder w/o a problem.
So something is wrong with that download procedure too.

I have not yet tested what happens if I upload the zip file into a clean WP installation. The database sql file that was created hopefully works.

Hello? Anybody there? How can I get the debug report to you?

Are you sure you want me as a customer? With that support I doubt it.

Upload it to where? Do you have a link or something for Dropbox?

I decided not to continue using the Photo Gallery.

Hi Asya, a link is currently not possible because my site is still residing only on my PC.

In the meantime I found some more related issues. The original image only appears if the gallery lightbox image is of a small size based on the setting. But that “original” image is then still partially covered by the initial lightbox image and thus useless. It cannot be selected either; any attempt makes it disappear.

ok, in principle I found what I have to do in wp_posts/post_content:

find in href= the string: “localhost/year/”

copy from that record the id# from: rel=”attachment wp-att-id#”

replace in that record in href= the string
“https://localhost/year/….” with
“https://localhost/?attachment_id=id#”

What I am missing now is a way to accomplish that programmatically. I assume there might be a way with an SQL query, or with other software tackling an exported sql file?

I have no knowledge whatsoever with SQL queries or how to do it otherwise. Any help is very much appreciated as there are several thousand records that need to be changed.