Title: [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Automatic backups not happening
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Automatic backups not happening

 *  [markrand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrand/)
 * (@markrand)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-automatic-backups-not-happening/)
 * Manual backups seem to work fine. I’m not seeing any error messages. The panel
   says that the next backup will be at 11:00 pm, but 11:00 pm comes and goes and
   no new backup. Goes this way for days. Manual backups continue to work when I
   trigger them.
 * Any thoughts?
 * Thanks,
 * – Mark
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-automatic-backups-not-happening/#post-2562114)
 * Hi markrand,
 * You likely have an issue with wp-cron, could you run through some of the suggestions
   in the faq
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/faq/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/faq/)
 *  [doakh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doakh/)
 * (@doakh)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-automatic-backups-not-happening/#post-2562262)
 * I really like this plugin. I have a weekly backup that is working, but it is 
   not being emailed. I get the following message:
 * ‘BackUpWordPress has detected a problem. The last backup email failed to send.
   It’s likely that the file is too large.’
 * The file size is ~ 71MB. My email account has a 250MB limit. I can manually download
   the file. It is stored in the default wp-contents/backups folder.
 * My .backup_warnings is:
    `{"php":{"c3bc7aab087d04b54f85b396a6c9b0ad":[8,"Undefined
   index: ws_plugin__qcache_menu_pages_css","\/home\/doak4812\/public_html\/wp-content\/
   plugins\/quick-cache\/includes\/classes\/admin-css-js.inc.php",20],"acda65b1ca8090f6bd4cb9cfdaa1366e":[
   8,"Undefined index: ws_plugin__qcache_menu_pages_js","\/home\/doak4812\/public_html\/
   wp-content\/plugins\/quick-cache\/includes\/classes\/admin-css-js.inc.php",28]}}`
 * So, is appears Quick Cache is interferring with the email?
 * Thanks,
 * Doak
 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-automatic-backups-not-happening/#post-2562263)
 * HI doakh,
 * The issue with the backup filesize isn’t that your email account can’t receive
   files of that size it’s that your server can’t send files larger than about 10mb.
 * That warning is unrelated and won’t affect BackUpWordPress, you could contact
   the plugin author though so he can fix.

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