makimat
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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin] Dangerous, corrupt backupsThanks for replying David!
My biggest concern is that your plugin reports the wrong status to user, giving a false sense of security. It’s a good thing the tool shows a detailed log but if errors happen, e.g the zip file cannot be opened, the tool should clearly report an error in the UI and prevent damage from happening. Without me having to read the full log in order to find out. Now everything seemed fine and UpdraftPlus reported me that the backup has been restored. But I ended up having just emptied directories on the server after restore. That’s unacceptable.
I cannot possibly know how the plugin internally creates or extracts zip packages and as a plugin user, I shouldn’t be worried about such things, unless it is very explicitly told during installation or configuration that I need to know and check the zip tooling on the server before using the plugin.
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by makimat.
I had pretty much the same scenario today. My client had messed up their site with uncontrolled plugin updates. No worries, I thought, we have UpdraftPlus installed and there are fresh backups available. Well, first UpdraftPlus had troubles restoring the backups and failed when restoring plugins. But when it finally succeeded (i only chose to restore themes, then separately uploads), the site rendered blank. Only wp-admin was still working (lucky me), all the other content was just blank white. Checking from the server side after restore, I noticed the themes and uploads folders under wp-content were empty. When I downloaded the themes and uploads backups to my laptop from UpdraftPlus settings view, the zip files were corrupted and I couldn’t extract them with any zip tools available. Also couldn’t browse them in the Updrafts settings view, it gave an alert about the corrupt zip file.
So, pretty useless I’d say. A plugin you’d want to trust at the moment of troubles made things even worse.
Luckily I had an older replica of the site still luring around, waiting for being terminated, and I was able to restore themes and most of the uploads from there.
It seems the quiz shows up in the evenings and is hidden from guest users in the morning again (on EET timezone). I don’t get the logic 😀
Now the same issue is happening again. I didn’t do any changes meanwhile and the quiz doesn’t show for guest users. Now I upgraded the plugin from 7.1.12 to 7.1.13 and again went through every page, clicked the gear icon and pressed Save. But can’t see the questions out there as a guest user.
This is a bit embarrassing as I was trying to give a demo to my client and she couldn’t see the questions at all. It makes me wonder whether I can trust this plugin in the longer term.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by makimat.
Hi,
I noticed yesterday this other issue from the forums and tried your suggestion. Initially after doing what you did on the screencast didn’t help but later in the evening I opened the quiz on my smart phone (without any changes in between) and suddenly it started working. So it seems we’re fine.
When should I expect the next plugin update?
Br,
MattiHi,
Can you do the same magic for me too? I have set the option “Require User Login” to “No” but can only see the quiz on my test page when I’m logged in to wordpress. When I go incognito, open with different browser or using my smart phone I can’t see it there. What might be wrong?
Quiz should appear here: https://softagram.com/quiz/test-survey/
Br,
Matti