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Hi @bcrodua, @davidanderson,

I changed the cronjob to trigger WP cron from my users crontab to the apache users crontab and it appears to have solved the problem.
Last two scheduled backups have runned without a problem.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
L

Hi @davidanderson,

I think I might have an idea what the problem is. Your reply pointed me in that direction.

As I explained in my first post, the website is currently still being setup and protected by basic auth.
Therefore WP Cron will not be triggered by the regular web traffic.
In order to mitigate this, I created a cronjob that triggers WP Cron manually every hour.

The cronjob in question is run by my user and the folder in question is being owned by apache:apache. Could that be the reason why the log file couldn’t be created and the backup task isn’t running?

Would adding my user to the apache group solve this problem?

Thank you for your thoughts.
L

Hi @bcrodua,

As I mentioned in my first post:

– There is plenty of space available both on the server as the Google Drive storage
– Access rights for folder /var/www/html/wp-content/updraft/: apache:apache 0755

Are those access rights ok?

What could be the difference between the manual and scheduled backups? They both use the same folder, but manual works and scheduled not.

Thanks,
L

Hi @bcrodua,

It seems like both latest scheduled backup tasks have failed again (one around midnight and one around 1PM).
Again with the following error:

Failed to open log file (/var/www/html/wp-content/updraft/log.8c93df0bf5c5.txt) – you need to check your UpdraftPlus settings (your chosen directory for creating files in is not writable, or you ran out of disk space). Backup aborted. (aug 07 13:00:04)

Please advise what the next action should be.

Thank you,
L

Hi again @bcrodua,

It appears that the scheduled backup for this noon has successfully been completed.
I have no idea why this time it has worked…

I will leave this topic open to see if the scheduled backup for this night will run as well.

Thanks,
L

Hi @bcrodua,

I can do that for sure.
But please note that this will be the backup log of a manual triggered backup as the scheduled backup is giving the error that the log file could not be created.

Can I send the logfile through email or another channel?
I don’t feel comfortable sharing logs publicly.

Thanks,
L

Hi @lioneldaniel,

Thanks for your reply. Makes sense now!
So I guess everything will work ok once I remove the basic auth and open the website to the public. Then the scheduled actions will happen and the list will get populated.

Thanks again!

L

Hi @rainfallnixfig,
Thanks for your reply!

All customers were created during the checkout proces and thus have orders.
No import was done.

Maybe worth mentioning as you are asking if there are scheduled tasks pending:
I have apache basic auth setup for the website as I first want to test and setup everyting prior to exposing it to the big public.
Could this be the reason? I know a lot of scheduled tasks are building up because of the basic auth being in place and no traffic being allowed.

Thanks