Title: Inactivity Backup Errors
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Inactivity Backup Errors

 *  [newwestagency](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newwestagency/)
 * (@newwestagency)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inactivity-backup-errors/)
 * I have been getting these errors lately.
 * [01-Jul-2013 11:13:09] WARNING: Job restart due to inactivity for more than 5
   minutes.
    [01-Jul-2013 11:13:09] ERROR: ZipArchive returns status: (ER_DELETED)
   Entry has been deleted [01-Jul-2013 11:21:47] WARNING: Job restart due to inactivity
   for more than 5 minutes. [01-Jul-2013 11:35:14] WARNING: Job restart due to inactivity
   for more than 5 minutes.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  [dehab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dehab/)
 * (@dehab)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inactivity-backup-errors/#post-3892314)
 * Same Issue that I am seeing – any updates
 *  [George wp-website-mastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lernerconsult/)
 * (@lernerconsult)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inactivity-backup-errors/#post-3892362)
 * `
    1. Trying to create backup archive … Compression method is ZipArchive WARNING:
   Job restart due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes. 2. Trying to create backup
   archive … Compression method is ZipArchive WARNING: Job restart due to inactivity
   for more than 5 minutes. 3. Trying to create backup archive … Compression method
   is ZipArchive WARNING: Job restart due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes.
 * Set for 3 retries… This means the backup archive was Not created, right? In the
   backup folder, are numerous 0-byte files.
 * a) Say clearly “Backup archive not created”
    b) How do I set the timeout? c) 
   How do I estimate how long the timeout should be? (E.g. given how much was archived
   in 5 minutes, how long would the entire archive take?) d) I want to back up all
   the files of my site, excluding folders with huge files (audio, video I can back
   up separately). The resulting file size might be over 2GB. If just a small Multi-
   Site blog takes more than 5 minutes, the full backup needs a Much larger setting!
   e) Archive pieces are left in the backup folder. Are these useable? File names
   such as `backwpup_1_2013-08-13_23-21-07.zip.Polk1B` or `backwpup_1_2013-08-13_23-
   21-07.zip.aZzqDu`
 * I have added to my wp-config this line:
    `set_time_limit(3600); /* 1 hour */`
   This should be in the plugin, set before each database or ZIP operation: `set_time_limit(
   600); // 10 minutes`
 *  [obit8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obit8/)
 * (@obit8)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inactivity-backup-errors/#post-3892369)
 * Lernerconsult what you have added works?
 *  [George wp-website-mastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lernerconsult/)
 * (@lernerconsult)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inactivity-backup-errors/#post-3892370)
 * [@obit8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obit8/) No, the set_time_limit in
   wp-config does not work, I was stating that I had tried it. Setting the overall
   WordPress time limit to 1 hr is of course defeating the purpose — it is to allow
   PHP to stop processes that are out of control. PHP allows specifying the timeout
   so you can give things like database queries that could take a little longer,
   or making .zip files which could take a long time, enough time to complete; that
   should be done in the plugin surrounding the specific time-consuming steps.
 * I also have problems with WordPress plugin updates not unzipping, so there may
   be a problem with the zip functions on my WordPress, or my server, or some other
   plugin conflicting with zip, or…. I don’t really have a way to test it, until
   I dive in to learning to write a PHP zip routine…
 * Somewhere I posted that the tar format (no compression, just put everything in
   one file) worked for the database backup but not for “database plus all my folders”
 *  [George wp-website-mastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lernerconsult/)
 * (@lernerconsult)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inactivity-backup-errors/#post-3892374)
 * There are older versions of PHP that have bugs with zip/unzip, hang with no error
   messages — and make WordPress Update fail, make BackWPup compression fail, anything
   using zip/gzip.
 * [http://lcblog.lernerconsult.com/2013-php-unzip-bug-makes-wordpress-updates-hang/](http://lcblog.lernerconsult.com/2013-php-unzip-bug-makes-wordpress-updates-hang/)
   has PHP code that demonstrates the bug isn’t in WordPress or BackWPUp (if your
   version of PHP has the bug).
 * BackWPUp works with compression after talking to my hosting provider, a .htaccess
   configuration change switched me to a newer PHP.

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