Title: UpDraftPlus Scheduling not working
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# UpDraftPlus Scheduling not working

 *  Resolved [Herzog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/therewardboss/)
 * (@therewardboss)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraftplus-scheduling-not-working/)
 * For some reason, my scheduled backups won’t run unless I press the back up now
   button. Every day I look at it, the scheduled date just keeps moving forward 
   one day.
 * I read through some of the other threads on the same topic and think it has something
   to do with the CRON jobs. Godaddy has some issues with that.
 * I installed WP Crontrol and got this error:
 * > There was a problem spawning a call to the WP-Cron system on your site. This
   > means WP-Cron events on your site may not work. The problem was:
   >  Unexpected
   > HTTP response code: 429
 * Any suggestions?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [DNutbourne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnutbourne/)
 * (@dnutbourne)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraftplus-scheduling-not-working/#post-7653618)
 * Hi,
 * The HTTP response code that you are seeing in WP Crontrol is a ‘Too Mnay Requests’
   code.
 * It appears that the WordPress Scheduler is not able to run scheduled tasks. As
   such, the UpdraftPlus scheduled backups are not able to run. The manual backups
   are triggered without using the scheduler.
 * You will need to contact your hosts and ask them to investigate the issue, as
   this appears to be an issue with the server itself.
 *  Thread Starter [Herzog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/therewardboss/)
 * (@therewardboss)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraftplus-scheduling-not-working/#post-7653627)
 * I checked with Godaddy and they don’t allow CRON jobs with WordPress hosting.
   It could work on their regular cpanel hosting.
 * Any way around this other than switching hosts?
 *  Plugin Contributor [DNutbourne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnutbourne/)
 * (@dnutbourne)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraftplus-scheduling-not-working/#post-7653699)
 * Hi,
 * You can try the WordPress Alternate CRON. To do this, add the following line 
   to your wp-config.php file, just above the ‘stop editing’ line:
    `define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON',
   true);`
 * More information can be [found here](https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Alternative_Cron).

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 * Last reply from: [DNutbourne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnutbourne/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updraftplus-scheduling-not-working/#post-7653699)
 * Status: resolved