Title: Php fatal timeout errors – continue with right php settings?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Php fatal timeout errors – continue with right php settings?

 *  Resolved [andfarr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andfarr/)
 * (@andfarr)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-timeout-errors-continue-with-right-php-settings/)
 * Hi Mikey,
    I continue to be plagued by PHP fatal timeout errors and rarely am
   able to get a zip backup to finish completely and properly. I’ve changed all 
   the PHP settings per your blog post some time ago and any other time limiting
   setting I’ve been able to come across, though I’m only an amateur at all this.
 * [20-Feb-2013 20:46:14 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds
   exceeded in /home5/andrexw1/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-backup-
   to-dropbox/Extensions/class-zip-backup.php on line 139
 * However when the backup starts, I see the timeout I have manually defined in 
   my php.ini setting which is 900.
 * 14:00:12: Your time limit is 900 seconds and your memory limit is 200M
 * My directory isn’t that large but sometimes explodes if I’m not watching it because
   the plugin creates literally dozens of partial zip files all of varying sizes(
   some as large as l00+m). What should I do here?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/)

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 *  Thread Starter [andfarr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andfarr/)
 * (@andfarr)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-timeout-errors-continue-with-right-php-settings/#post-3490078)
 * So actually to update, my directory was already actually exploded (but not because
   of wpb2db, but because of another plugin), and after I cleared up the misbehaving
   plugin it worked fine on the first manual backup I prompted.
 * Although I’m still curious why it mentions the execution time as 120 seconds 
   instead of 900 as the php error?

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