Anyone have any ideas on this? Its really causing me a lot of issues and was fine prior to the updates.
Regards,
Robert
Gday Robert,
It could be that your wp-cron is no longer working.
Have you gone through this sticky post?
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/why-won%E2%80%99t-my-backup-start?replies=7
Cheers,
Mikey
Hey Mickey,
Yes I went through the sticky post. Problem is that I am using a Zeus server so I do not have a .htaccess file to check the cron. Any thoughts?
Robert
Hi,
My hosting company came back to me with this:
“Cron Jobs are not available on our shared hosting platforms for security reasons as well as load management on the servers.
Technically you could code a semi-manual way of doing this by creating a section of code on your website which performs the required Cron action and then writes the current time to a file or database.
Each time that section of code is ran in future (which will be each time someone loads the page) the script checks the previous execution time against the current time and then re-runs the script if the required period of time has elapsed. The downside of this is that it wouldn’t run exactly when desired and requires someone to have visited the trigger page, but it is a possible way of working around having no Cron access. Please note that we couldn’t assist you with creating this as we cannot aid with scripting creation or issues directly.”
Seems they have made some changes.. Is there another way to get around this do you think?
Regards,
Robert
Gday Robert,
That is exactly how the wp-cron works! It relies on traffic to kick off cron tasks.
In order for the backup to work wp-cron needs to work and going through this sticky post will help http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/why-won%E2%80%99t-my-backup-start?replies=7
Cheers,
Mikey
Hey,
Thanks for the reply. I went through the sticky post alright but the issue is Zeus servers do not use .htaccess files so this is where I am stuck. Any thoughts on a work around?
Sorry mate,
I have not used Zeus servers so you are on your own.
Once you get scheduled posts working then backups will too. If you find a solution please post it here.
Good luck mate.
Cheers,
Mikey
