Title: Extra Backups
Last modified: November 1, 2016

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# Extra Backups

 *  Resolved [hooperman13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hooperman13/)
 * (@hooperman13)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-backups/)
 * I have been using UpdraftPlus for some time now and I find it very good. It seems
   to cope with shared hosting better than any other backup plug-in.
    One issue 
   that I have discovered is that it seems to produce far more backups than I have
   scheduled. I have been scheduling one database backup per day and one file backup
   per week but on some days I get many. On 31/10 for example 18 backups were produced.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [DNutbourne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnutbourne/)
 * (@dnutbourne)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-backups/#post-8381805)
 * Hi,
 * When you say that 18 backups were produced, is this 18 backup sets (listed in
   the Existing Backups tab or from multiple report emails), or 18 backup files?
 * UpdraftPlus splits each backup into several sections, each of which can contain
   multiple files if large enough.
 * Each file in a backup set will have the same timestamp and random string of characters
   in the file name. The file name will also include the section of the backup, 
   e.g:
    `backup_2016-11-01-1223_WordPress_3cee5217d7cf-uploads3.zip`
 * If you believe that the backups are running multiple times a day, please could
   you send us a copy of the latest backup logs? These can be found in the Existing
   Backups tab.
    The contents will be too long to post here directly, but you can
   use an online service such as Pastebin, and post the link here.

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 * Last reply from: [DNutbourne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnutbourne/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-backups/#post-8381805)
 * Status: resolved