Title: [Plugin: WP-DB-Backup] "Error getting table details"
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-DB-Backup] "Error getting table details"

 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeispoetry/)
 * (@codeispoetry)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-db-backup-error-getting-table-details/)
 * I get this error message: “Error getting table details”. I get it on every table
   I have selected beyond the basic WP tables.
 * When does this happen? Could it be that the db is too large?

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 *  Thread Starter [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeispoetry/)
 * (@codeispoetry)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-db-backup-error-getting-table-details/#post-1758372)
 * It appears to me that this can happen when there is a memory overload on the 
   server due to other processes running. Today it works again. It might also help
   that I have deleted a large table containing the logs of a stats program (Download
   Monitor).
 * However, I’m not marking this as resolved because I think the error message could
   be more helpful here. Neither the message nor the WP-DB Backup docs contain any
   mention of possible causes for this error. Searching Google for it only retrieves
   the source files of the plugin and its various translations.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-db-backup-error-getting-table-details/#post-1758372)
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