Title: [Plugin: BackWPup] Dropbox upload fail
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackWPup] Dropbox upload fail

 *  [Whealer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whealer/)
 * (@whealer)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backwpup-dropbox-upload-fail/)
 * Upload to dropbox fails. Logs below…
 * 2011/10/26 13:40.40: 1. try to create backup zip (PclZip) archive…
    2011/10/26
   13:41.07: Backup zip archive create done 2011/10/26 13:41.07: Archive size is
   116.22 MB 2011/10/26 13:41.07: 1. Try to sending backup file to DropBox… 2011/
   10/26 13:41.07: Authed with DropBox from Windmasters Hill 2011/10/26 13:41.07:
   2 GB free on DropBox 2011/10/26 13:41.07: Upload to DropBox now started… 2011/
   10/26 13:56.00: [ERROR] Job restarted, bcause inactivity!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  [mikeotgaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeotgaar/)
 * (@mikeotgaar)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backwpup-dropbox-upload-fail/#post-2368248)
 * **Sorry – not a solution;**
    Just installed the plugin and connected to Dropbox–
   first upload succesful.
 * Dropbox can be very slow at times. Can see from your log it took 15 minutes –
   looks like a timeout problem. Perhaps try to schedule for an off peak time?
 * (The backup was for a new site and is small – 16MB. Took about 2 minutes to transfer.)
   I have had problems manually uploading large files to DB in the past.

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