Title: Script Running Time
Last modified: September 4, 2018

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# Script Running Time

 *  [alananderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alananderson/)
 * (@alananderson)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/script-running-time/)
 * I have been SUCCESSFULLY using DropBox Backup for some time now.
    Today, however,
   it has stopped working I am now getting the following error message: Local Backup
   wasn’t created: There is not enough script running time to perform backup operations,
   please increase the PHP variable max_execution_time.
 * Seeing as yesterday I deleted a lot of data (Two sub domains and several old “
   local Backups” AND upgraded to GrowBig I can’t understand why this problem should
   exist.
    I did add several plug ins yesterday but have not acxtivated any of them
 * I reported this to SiteGround. Here is their response:
 * > “”I recreated the issue and even though I optimized the process by selecting
   > only the vital WordPress folders from within the wp-content directory it still
   > failed on the step “Archiving of files”. Unfortunately, no error is being shown
   > or recorded, so I was not able to find what is stopping the archiving process.
   > I noticed however that if I select only the basic WordPress files without wp-
   > admin, wp-content and wp-includes the process completes successfully.
   > We cannot increase the value of max_execution_time, as it is limited to 120
   > seconds on all of our shared hosting servers. However giving the current case
   > I believe the plugin enters into a loop, which is why it exceeds the max_execution_time.
   > What I could suggest here is that you re-install the plugin and try to create
   > a local backup again. If the process fails please contact the plugins developers
   > for more information, as they are well familiar with the plugin’s code and 
   > should be able to debug it and tell you exactly what is stopping the process.
   > If the developers request any information from us or have any suggestions –
   > contact us back at anytime.
   > Best regards,
   > Todor Pehlivanov
   >  Senior Technical Support””
 * Regards
 * Alan
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