Title: Multiple Backups
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multiple Backups

 *  Resolved [alanpae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanpae/)
 * (@alanpae)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/)
 * Hi,
 * I have one backup scheduled to do a Database Backup only.
 * It is set to run early in the morning and it does.
 * The issue is that instead of running only once it seems to run multiple times
   for up to a half hour and sends all of the backups.
 * It’s nice to have a backup it would be nicer if it only sent one.
 * The log files show no errors.
 * This only started happening with 3.x.
 * Please fix.
    Thanks, alan
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/#post-3519107)
 * Did you have installed W3TC ?
 *  Thread Starter [alanpae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanpae/)
 * (@alanpae)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/#post-3519123)
 * I had WP Super Cache installed but I removed it last night around 8 PM and then
   the backup ran several hours later and produced 30 backups. 🙂
 * I feel safe but would like just one obviously. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [alanpae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanpae/)
 * (@alanpae)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/#post-3519135)
 * The upgrade to 3.03 using the built in WordPress facility did not go well. So
   I removed the plugin by hand and uploaded the files to the server and then activated
   it.
 * This morning there was just one file. I also changed a few settings. I’ll try
   to annotate which ones later on today and monitor it for a few more days before
   I mark it resolved.
 * alan
 *  Thread Starter [alanpae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanpae/)
 * (@alanpae)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/#post-3519140)
 * Restart the job on every main step on a working job – Unchecked now
 * Changed format from zip to tar.gz – Should be innocuous.
 * So it was probably the restart on main step that was causing the issue.
 * alan
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/#post-3519147)
 * I will disable the option by default for next relase.
 * The option is helfule if you make bigger backup in one job.
 * Thanks a lot for using BackWPup and I’m glad I was able to help.
 *  Thread Starter [alanpae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanpae/)
 * (@alanpae)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/#post-3519208)
 * Most days it’s just the one backup now. Had two backups once.
 * closing.
 * alan
 *  Plugin Author [Alex Frison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seville76/)
 * (@seville76)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/#post-3519221)
 * Thanks for your feedback alan.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-backups/#post-3519221)
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