Title: Backup fails with errors
Last modified: July 2, 2020

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# Backup fails with errors

 *  Resolved [markopete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markopete/)
 * (@markopete)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-fails-with-errors/)
 * I am seeing “Waiting until scheduled time to retry because of errors” each time
   I back up. Any help would be appreciated.
 * I have a backup log but don’t see where I can attach it here?
 * Pete

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 *  Thread Starter [markopete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markopete/)
 * (@markopete)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-fails-with-errors/#post-13061516)
 * I tried the following from someone else’s post but it made no difference?
 * I can see that the backup gets timed out or killed off. Could you try to reduce
   the backup archive split size? To do this, open the ‘expert settings’ section
   of the UpdraftPlus Settings tab, and find the ‘split backups every’ option. Set
   this to 25Mb save your settings and run a new process.
 *  Thread Starter [markopete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markopete/)
 * (@markopete)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-fails-with-errors/#post-13061519)
 * Log upload to dropbox
 * [Log](https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Downloads/log.28fc4672071e.txt)
 *  Thread Starter [markopete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markopete/)
 * (@markopete)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-fails-with-errors/#post-13063529)
 * The latest update has fixed it 🙂
 *  Plugin Contributor [bcrodua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcrodua/)
 * (@bcrodua)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-fails-with-errors/#post-13063726)
 * Hi [@markopete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markopete/)
 * Yes, we’ve just released a fix for Dropbox. Thanks for letting us know that this
   is working for you!
 * [@rkyburz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkyburz/) you can try to adjust
   it to 200Mb and see if the backup still successfully completes.
 * Best Wishes,
    Bryle

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