Title: Missing Backups
Last modified: February 11, 2020

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# Missing Backups

 *  Resolved [rytch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rytch/)
 * (@rytch)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-backups-4/)
 * I am currently backing up three websites to Google Drive and they are reported
   as successful. Although now I have a question after looking at the backups on
   Google Drive: although Updraft shows ten daily backups for two of the websites,
   I only see three backups on Google Drive. Not sure what I’m doing wrong? Temp
   admin access is user updraftsupport p/w support.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmissing-backups-4%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Harshad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bornforphp/)
 * (@bornforphp)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-backups-4/#post-12424503)
 * [@rytch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rytch/)
 * The backup set consists of a number of .zip and .gz files. These will all be 
   identified by the same timestamp, site name and random character string.
 * The naming scheme is as follows:
    backup_<YEAR>_<MONTH>_<DAY>-<TIME>_<Site Name
   >_<12 random characters>-<Section of the backup>.[zip/gz] e.g.: backup_2018-11-
   19-1839_WordPress_d59089f8ad80-plugins.zip backup_2018-11-19-1839_WordPress_d59089f8ad80-
   themes.zip backup_2018-11-19-1839_WordPress_d59089f8ad80-uploads.zip backup_2018-
   11-19-1839_WordPress_d59089f8ad80-db.gz
 * The exact number of file varies on the size of the site.
 * Are you seeing the 3 sets of above formats?
 * Thanks,
    Harshad
 *  Thread Starter [rytch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rytch/)
 * (@rytch)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-backups-4/#post-12426046)
 * Actually the issue is that Updraft shows ten total backups (I limit to 10) but
   there are only three on Google Drive, the backup destination. On the drive the
   backups only go back three days. Thanks for your help.
 *  Thread Starter [rytch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rytch/)
 * (@rytch)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-backups-4/#post-12426056)
 * I do see the multiple files on Google Drive but only three total backups.
 *  Plugin Contributor [bcrodua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcrodua/)
 * (@bcrodua)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-backups-4/#post-12437355)
 * Hi,
 * Which backup components are missing?
    Are you able to send us a copy of the backup
   log? Please use an online tool such as Pastebin or Dropbox and paste the link
   here.
 * Regards,
    Bryle
 *  Thread Starter [rytch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rytch/)
 * (@rytch)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-backups-4/#post-12437644)
 * It seems to be resolving since the newer backups are appearing on Google Drive.
   I think what happened is that a little while back I found that all my backups
   for one of the three websites I back up were corrupt and I was directed by support
   to change the chunk size, which helped. What must have happened is that when 
   I deleted all the backups for the one website that were corrupted, Updraft deleted
   the backups for all three websites (they are in the same folder on Google Drive).
   Does this make sense?
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-backups-4/#post-12493620)
 * Backups for another website are only listed if you used the “Rescan remote storage”
   facility; this will then list anything in the remote storage (if it’s in the 
   same folder). Yes, if you then select all the backups and delete them, then those
   other ones would be included.

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