Title: Backups do not actually exist
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Backups do not actually exist

 *  Resolved [Laura Yeffeth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clampdesign/)
 * (@clampdesign)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backups-do-not-actually-exist/)
 * Really strange things are happening on all of my WP Installations where I use
   Updraft Plus. Due to the erroneous backups being created on one installation 
   and backups not getting deleted on another installation, I went back and started
   checking other installations. On one, I tried to download the backup and it says
   backup not found. I tried a few more and none are there. I went to my Google 
   Drive and sure enough, they are not there. There are also 4 empty UpdraftPlus
   folders on Google Drive and one older one that has all my backups (last one being
   on August 13th). This also seems to be the date that all the extra databases 
   started getting saved on the one installation. On another, I downloaded the backup
   and it is the backup from a different WordPress installation (the one with all
   the extra db backups). I now have no idea if I actually have backups at all. 
   Any idea what is going on here?
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 *  Thread Starter [Laura Yeffeth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clampdesign/)
 * (@clampdesign)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backups-do-not-actually-exist/#post-6449652)
 * I did a bit more research and I have no backups since August 13th, but received
   no indication that anything was wrong. The reason the backup from one installation
   was showing up on another installation is because I used the “Rescan remote storage”
   link to see if there were any backups that weren’t showing up. This pulled in
   backups for the only site that is actually making backups and that site is making
   them way more often than it should and not deleting the older backups. I guess
   you can’t use that rescan link if you don’t have subfolders in the UpdraftPlus
   folder on your remote storage which you can’t do without the premium plugin, 
   but there was indication of that so now I have my installations showing a lot
   of backups that don’t actually exist. I don’t know if there is any way to reverse
   this.

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