peterdmacdonald

Thanks for the tip, however, problem persists.

I have multiple domains hosted in one cPanel. So my in my file tree I have public_html and then multiple sites listed. I deleted the .htaccess in the public_html folder and also in the website folder for the wordpress blog. Then I navigated to permalinks page which recreated the .htaccess.

I checked permissions: wp-content/uploads is 744 and files saved in there (eg. uploads) are 644. Thanks for any further insight.

David, thank you for your prompt response. I did as instructed and the plugin came back with all my settings. Thank you again. What a great plugin!

David,

I think I have a similar problem. What do you recommend to manually reinstall updraft and make sure it backs up to dropbox?

I updated 6 plugins tonight simultaneously – I do not know which ones. I suspect updraft was one of them. My website stopped loading and I had to rename the plugins folder to plugins.hold and then delete the .maintenance folder. Once in, I was lucky enough, after refreshing the page a few times, to see the error “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 167081 bytes) in
/functions.php on line 252″

I got worried and went to restore my backup from updraft plus. I noticed two strange things:

1. UpdraftPlus no longer showed up in my list of plugins at all. I tried to install the plugin again, but when I did so, the install attempt failed, explaining that the folder already existed.
2. I logged into FTP and noticed that updraft had a more recent backup then what had been sent over to my dropbox. So I downloaded that into my dropbox account.

I came to this post and saw your comment on memory limits, so I called Godaddy hosting support and they increased my php.ini limit from 64MB to 256MB. Instantly, my website started loading in its entirety (albeit – more slowly).

Updraft still does not show up anywhere on my plugins folder
I opened the updraft log and found:

0122.486 (0) Dropbox chunked upload: 73.3 % uploaded (PcOZT48Heh0sBpXg3Cf40w, 12058624)
0000.000 (1) Opened log file at time: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:12:20 +0000 on https://dashboard.riskadvice.com
0000.002 (1) UpdraftPlus WordPress backup plugin (https://updraftplus.com): 1.8.12 WP: 3.8.1 PHP: 5.3.24 (Linux p3nlhg246.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.nfsfixes.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 4 14:07:10 MST 2013 x86_64) MySQL: 5.0.96-log Server: Apache safe_mode: 0 max_execution_time: 900 memory_limit: 256M (used: 34M | 34.3M) multisite: N mcrypt: Y ZipArchive::addFile: Y
0000.005 (1) Free space on disk containing Updraft's temporary directory: 3147754.2 Mb
0000.007 (1) This backup began over 2 days ago: aborting

and

0000.025 (0) Opened log file at time: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:12:20 +0000 on https://dashboard.riskadvice.com
0000.028 (0) UpdraftPlus WordPress backup plugin (https://updraftplus.com): 1.8.12 WP: 3.8.1 PHP: 5.3.24 (Linux p3nlhg246.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.nfsfixes.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 4 14:07:10 MST 2013 x86_64) MySQL: 5.0.96-log Server: Apache safe_mode: 0 max_execution_time: 900 memory_limit: 256M (used: 33.9M | 34.3M) multisite: N mcrypt: Y ZipArchive::addFile: Y W3TC/ObjectCache: N
0000.031 (0) Free space on disk containing Updraft's temporary directory: 3147754.4 Mb
0000.193 (0) Tasks: Backup files:  (schedule: weekly) Backup DB: 1 (schedule: weekly)
0000.195 (0) Processed schedules. Tasks now: Backup files:  Backup DB:
0000.228 (0) No email will be sent - this backup set was empty.
0000.230 (0) The backup apparently succeeded and is now complete

What do you recommend to manually reinstal updraft and make sure it backs up to dropbox?

@LynnandChad: I had changed my default posts page a while back.posts page was listed as ” – select – “. Problem solved.
@adiant: thank you for the suggestion. When I said that I ‘deleted’ the page I didn’t actually delete any posts or anything of value, I simply removed the wordpress structure that stuck posts onto a webpage