Hello all,

was having the same issue with scheduled and manual backup not working and maybe I found something.

Until last mid december I was receiving weekly the backup, wich is about when WP 3.3 was released.

After reading the comments here and around, it seems as suggested by scruss that this is related to SQL file size.

When using the default WP-DB-Backup setting, the current SQL backup generated for my site is about 9mb. (have no idea what it was before WP3.3)

After checking my web host info I found a line with a PHP post_max_size limit to 8mb, I have no clue if this is related as I'm not really into that stuff, but here is the thing : when I exclude "spam comments" and "post revisions" from WP-DB-Backup settings, the SQL generated drops to less than 3mb, and all is working again (manual d/l, manual email and scheduled email).

Worth having a try.

I noticed that I have a ton of files in the wp-content/backup* folder.

But in January 2011, something changed:

I used to have sql.gz files processed until January 5th. As of January 12th, the plugin processed .sql files. I have 52 of them for 2011 and not a single one hit my inbox. Then again, I suspect that's to be expected; the gzipped files were 10MB and the .sql files are close to 100MB.

I just did a manual backup. The .sql file was created but again was not sent to me. I have no mail logs indicating that an email was even attempted. Maybe the files are too large to even be attempted.

It would be AWESOME if Austin could chime in on the issue here.

It was working just fine, until I upgraded to the latest version of WP (3.3). Now it stopped working. Manual download doesn't work either.

I am having the same problem with WP-DB Backup:

A manual backup to email works fine. But it will not backup automatically.

Any help would be appreciated.

Forgive me if this has already been suggested before, but yesterday I discovered where my backups are stored on my site. I also discovered there were 2 yrs worth of backups which I hadn't cleared out.

It would be great if the plugin settings page made clearer exactly where the backups were being stored (showing a filepath for example).

Even better would be a new feature allowing you to automatically delete old backups so you didn't have to go in & do this manually. You could set it to delete every backup but the most recent one; or to delete all backups older than a certain specified date.

I use the plugin in at least 10 sites and I have the same problem only in one and, as scruss wrote, it happens 'cause it's the only one site with many many pictures and infos, so the plugin store the (big) B.U. file in the wp-content/backup folder.
Not too much terrible, but sometime I'm out of home and I can't use ftp programs like Cyberduck ('cause Filezilla give an error).
Can be resolved, please?
Sorry for my bad english.

Have you checked to see if there are a whole bunch of *.sql files in the wp-content/backup-* folder? It seems that - if you're on shared hosting with a small memory limit - the compressing/mailing stage fails, and leaves the uncompressed files lying around.

I have had exactly the same problem, as described by Valerie above. This worked like clockwork. I got a backup by email every day. Then all of a sudden it stopped. It may have been in January, I really don't know without checking back, but that would appear to be about right. It has been on my to-do list to get this sorted for months. Today have tried again to get it working, and it doesn't. It does seem to be a common issue ... but why doesn't anyone respond? Or more importantly, why isn't this issue being fixed?

It's 3 months since the last post and not even a reply. is anyone out there? Does anyone care? Is there any support? I have the same situation. The plugin seems to be working and backing up, and then tells me that the backup was sent to my email address, but it wasn't. By the way, I have donated.

Having a similar problem, but slightly different. The plugin was working perfectly fine up until the end of January apparently. I noticed all of sudden (several months later) that I had not been receiving the backup emails any longer. I checked back and saw that it was indeed January! So I checked the Tools section and it's all set up to backup daily and send via email, so I tried it manually once. It backed up but never sent it to my email account. It's just not functioning for me any longer. Please help.

By the way, did anyone else on this forum get replied to?

SAME PROBLEM!!!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

Having the same problem...Scheduling will be a life saver...

Same problem for me. Please help!

I am having a serious issue whereby your plugin renamed a bunch of php files, then wiped the contents of the originals! NOT happy.

Sorry, you're having trouble, but there's absolutely no way my plugin could have done anything like that. It must be something else.

Has your site been hacked, perhaps?

I am having a serious issue whereby your plugin renamed a bunch of php files, then wiped the contents of the originals! NOT happy.

If anyone with this problem could send me a copy of your backup file to austin@pressedcode.com, that would help me diagnose what's going on.

I'm having the same issue. The duplicate post IDs are scattered. I can't access the original database by PHPmyAdmin, though, so it's hard to say if it is in the database or is the fault of the backup plugin.

I'm using version 2.2.3 of the plugin, and WordPress 3.0.4

Hello, this plug in's backup scheduling does not working. Nothing is being backed up on schedule although the manual backup works fine. What could cause the scheduling not to work? Thanks.

This should explain it:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

Hello, I was just wondering how I would go to restore my backup? (For future reference if needed) Thanks.

I also install WP-DB-Backup on every single WordPress installation and again many of the sites I set-up are CMS's with infrequent posts.

Monthly backups would be more convenient. Is there any chance of this?

Thanks for a great plug-in!

It is more than a gmail spam folder issue. Something is wrong.

Hey, this was a problem for me over the past month or so, as the automatic database email seemed to stop arriving in my inbox... But I found out that for some reason Gmail all of a sudden was sending my database backups to the spam folder, whereas previously everything was fine.

So, check your spam folder for your database backups. If they are there, make sure they are selected and click "not spam" and Gmail will remember not to put them in that folder.

Hope this helps!

Ryan (GRE Review Course.com)

Still won't work for me. :-/

Is it possible that it's something server side?

Because I have two other WP sites and this works perfectly for both of those.

For those who can't send back-up by e-mail, you may do this: change your e-mail address to another. I changed my back-up email from gmail to yahoo and everything seem to work fine. This could be a problem that gmail try to block backup mail.

Try it.

Good Luck.

Tried the ('MOD_EVASIVE_OVERRIDE', false)-hack but it froze yet again.
I tried not backing up my forums, only the blogs and then it worked!

I guess I'll stick with only saving the blogs. My forum(s) are not active anyway...

Thanks you.

Forgot to add:
I've tried manually backing up my database to email and it seems to hang around 20%. Not on the same table though.

Hi,
Thanks for a great plugin.
My daily backup stopped mailing me a week back and I have an idea that it has to do with my theme, which I changed to the same day...
That seems to be too much of a coincidence to be completely unrelated anyway.

My theme now is Suffusion, which I think is one of the bigger/more used ones and a great plugin like this should really be compatible with the big ones.

Thank you!

Hi,

I really like the plugin and its simplicity but the automated emailing doesn't work on several blogs/websites I created. Just once I got an email with the backup file...

Is there any solution to this problem yet? I really hope so as there are no other plugins offering this funtion in such an easy way...

Best,
Tohmas

Hi! We are having this same issue : The daily email backup is working on two of our websites, but the most recent website we added it to stopped sending the emails after April 11th. We've tried re-saving the options to see if that triggers it, but still nothing. : We love this plugin and we always donate to it :D. It's been really reliable for our other 2 websites for a long time, so we truly appreciate it, we just want to figure this out too!

Thank you!