Hey relish1227
They should definitely be being auto deleted, how many schedules do you have?
Are any of the backup duplicates (same backup done multiple times) or is it just not deleting old backups?
So, for each of the 10 backups, I see two files. For instance, for yesterday I see:
mydomain.com-backup-complete-2013-06-08-23-07-26.zip – 2,215,244K
zi7oK3iM (no extension) – 1,733,710,139K
The zip files appear to be deleting fine, as I only see 10 of them. However, the second file — which I think is the file backup, although I don’t know why it doesn’t have an extension — does not get deleted. The last zip I see is from 6/9, but there are those “other” files from 6/8 and 6/7. They have a similar naming style and are fairly large. I had deleted all the previous ones to save space.
Any ideas why these aren’t being removed? Thanks!
Hi, I’m having the same problem.
I use this plugin on a lot of sites, but I few days ago I noticed that everyone of the sites using this plugin were using lots of serverspace. I’m talking several gigs more than the site really is.
When I go to the directory on the server where the backups are stored, I find up to 20 backups of really big sizes. Note that there are more backups than I scheduled for on the WP back-end. And I always use just one schedule.
I find files like this:
mydomain.com-backup-complete-2013-06-16-23-00-35.zip
Which is corresponding to the list of backups I see in the WP back-end.
But also lots like these:
mydomain.com-default-1-database-2013-06-08-23-03-02.zip
mydomain.com-default-2-complete-2013-04-28-23-06-04.zip
Again, i’m having this problem on several websites, all using this back-up plugin.
Thanks in advance.
Robert
mydomain.com-backup-complete-2013-06-08-23-07-26.zip – 2,215,244K
zi7oK3iM (no extension) – 1,733,710,139K
the zi7oK3iM should be being deleted, thats the temporary file created when zipping. I’m not sure why it isn’t being.
Could you email [email protected] and I’ll see if I can dig into this a bit deeper.
But also lots like these:
mydomain.com-default-1-database-2013-06-08-23-03-02.zip
mydomain.com-default-2-complete-2013-04-28-23-06-04.zip
Those look like backups from your default schedules, you definitely don’t have those still setup? If you deleted them the backups should have been deleted also. Are new backups still being created from those schedules?
The edge cases that could cause BackUpWordPress to create more than one backup have been fixed in version 2.3
