Latest Changes to Dropbox broke BackWPup

Me too. Just installed it on 3.3 and get this:
1. try to create backup zip (PclZip) archive…
2011/12/18 16:59.45: Backup zip archive create done
2011/12/18 16:59.45: Archive size is 176.18 MB
2011/12/18 16:59.45: 1. Try to sending backup file to DropBox…
2011/12/18 16:59.45: Authed with DropBox from Jay Pomerantz
2011/12/18 16:59.45: 1.47 GB free on DropBox
2011/12/18 16:59.45: Upload to DropBox now started…
2011/12/18 16:59.45: [ERROR] DropBox API: Error: File “/home/content/59/8003659/tmp/.backwpup_663737391/backwpup_2_2011-12-18_16-58-11.zip” is too big max. 150 MB.
2011/12/18 16:59.45: [ERROR] DropBox API: (403) Invalid signature. Expected signature base string: GET&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.dropbox.com%2F1%2Fmetadata%2Fdropbox%2FD%253A%2FMy%2520Dropbox%2FTPSBackUp&file_limit%3D10000%26list%3Dtrue%26oauth_consumer_key%3Dq2jbt0unkkc54u2%26oauth_nonce%3Dq96mZ%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1324245585%26oauth_token%3D3jz4vx1b9vjwuc9%26oauth_version%3D1.0
2011/12/18 16:59.45: 2. Try to sending backup file to DropBox…
2011/12/18 16:59.45: Authed with DropBox from XXXXXXXXXXXX
2011/12/18 16:59.45: 1.47 GB free on DropBox
2011/12/18 16:59.45: Upload to DropBox now started…
2011/12/18 16:59.45: [ERROR] DropBox API: Error: File “/home/content/59/8003659/tmp/.backwpup_663737391/backwpup_2_2011-12-18_16-58-11.zip” is too big max. 150 MB.
2011/12/18 16:59.45: [ERROR] DropBox API: (403) Invalid signature. Expected signature base string: GET&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.dropbox.com%2F1%2Fmetadata%2Fdropbox%2FD%253A%2FMy%2520Dropbox%2FTPSBackUp&file_limit%3D10000%26list%3Dtrue%26oauth_consumer_key%3Dq2jbt0unkkc54u2%26oauth_nonce%3DUgcJV%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1324245585%26oauth_token%3D3jz4vx1b9vjwuc9%26oauth_version%3D1.0
2011/12/18 16:59.45: 3. Try to sending backup file to DropBox…
2011/12/18 16:59.46: Authed with DropBox from Jay Pomerantz
2011/12/18 16:59.46: 1.47 GB free on DropBox
2011/12/18 16:59.46: Upload to DropBox now started…
2011/12/18 16:59.46: [ERROR] DropBox API: Error: File “/home/content/59/8003659/tmp/.backwpup_663737391/backwpup_2_2011-12-18_16-58-11.zip” is too big max. 150 MB.
2011/12/18 16:59.46: [ERROR] DropBox API: (403) Invalid signature. Expected signature base string: GET&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.dropbox.com%2F1%2Fmetadata%2Fdropbox%2FD%253A%2FMy%2520Dropbox%2FTPSBackUp&file_limit%3D10000%26list%3Dtrue%26oauth_consumer_key%3Dq2jbt0unkkc54u2%26oauth_nonce%3DB3vUo%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1324245586%26oauth_token%3D3jz4vx1b9vjwuc9%26oauth_version%3D1.0
2011/12/18 16:59.46: [ERROR] Step arborted has too many trys!

Since the 150 MB is VERY arbitrary can this be changed? How?

Thanks Daniel,
I was not aware that this is caused by the Dropbox API because I though that I sent larger files than 150 MB into the dropbox folder but I may wrong on that.

Is there a chance to
– compress the files first
– split them using something like ‘split –line-bytes=100m foo.tar.gz foo_’
– send them to dropbox

thanks for reacting
Peter

Hey Daniel – actually Dropbox’s API does not limit uploads if you use /chunked_upload instead of files_put
see this: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api#chunked-upload

any chance of you updating the plugin accordingly?!

Excellent!!! Great to hear this – thanks for maintaining an awesome plugin!