Title: Improper Behavior
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Improper Behavior

 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improper-behavior/)
 * Hi Lester, Thanks for this great plugin. Its the first thing I load on every 
   new site.
 * Today I noticed a behavior that could have gotten me in big trouble if I hadn’t
   already downloaded a copy of a backup. I keep ten copies on the server.
 * The problem: When you restore a copy of the database the plugin takes a backup
   first and deletes the oldest one to make room. I was incrementally restoring 
   one after the other trying to debug an issue when the GOOD one was deleted. I
   hadn’t noticed up until then what was happening.
 * I think it would be a lot better to make it an option to not backup before a 
   restore to avoid this from happeneing.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improper-behavior/#post-5141177)
 * The backup is done via cron on a schedule basis, from the plugin point of view,
   it will not know whether a restore has been done before the backup
 *  Thread Starter [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improper-behavior/#post-5141226)
 * So your saying the CRON runs every time a Restore is selected? How is this on
   a scheduled basis?
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improper-behavior/#post-5141239)
 * “When you restore a copy of the database the plugin takes a backup first and 
   deletes the oldest one to make room”
 * No it doesn’t do that, it will only run the restore command. The backup is done
   of a CRON bases specified in your settings. The backup and restore are both separate
   processes. It is run independently
 *  Thread Starter [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improper-behavior/#post-5141244)
 * Hi Lester,
 * Yes it does do that. That’s what I’m saying. I have it set to do one backup a
   day but it did one every time I did a restore.
 * > 1 epic_dartmouth.sql.gz July 30, 2014 @ 10:53 am 14.1 MiB
   >  2 epic_dartmouth.
   > sql.gz July 29, 2014 @ 3:24 pm 13.9 MiB 3 epic_dartmouth.sql.gz July 29, 2014
   > @ 3:16 pm 13.8 MiB 4 epic_dartmouth.sql.gz July 29, 2014 @ 3:15 pm 13.3 MiB
   > 5 epic_dartmouth.sql.gz July 29, 2014 @ 2:33 pm 13.2 MiB 6 epic_dartmouth.sql.
   > gz July 29, 2014 @ 2:26 pm 13.3 MiB 7 epic_dartmouth.sql.gz July 29, 2014 @
   > 2:17 pm 13.9 MiB 8 epic_dartmouth.sql.gz July 29, 2014 @ 2:08 pm 13.7 MiB 9
   > epic_dartmouth.sql.gz July 29, 2014 @ 2:08 pm 13.1 MiB 10 epic_dartmouth.sql.
   > gz July 29, 2014 @ 2:04 pm 13.5 MiB 11 epic_dartmouth.sql.gz July 29, 2014 
   > @ 2:04 pm 12.9 MiB
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improper-behavior/#post-5141250)
 * I can’t reproduce this problem on my end.
 * I did a restore of the DB and it doesn’t create a new backup. I also double check
   the code, it doesn’t even trigger the backup code when you click restore.
 * I set my “Automatic Backing Up Of DB” to a week on my test site.
 * Take a look at the screenshot [http://i.imgur.com/hcxQPwg.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/hcxQPwg.jpg)
 * Today is 31st and the last backup date is 30th even after restoring.
 *  Thread Starter [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improper-behavior/#post-5141285)
 * I’ll try it on another site and report back. Mine are all set to daily.

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