marknjones

Just in case it’s helpful, following @conartstudio’s suggestion just drop the following code into your theme’s functions.php file and it should patch the issue for you, clients, everyone:

add_action('admin_head', 'my_custom_css');

function my_custom_css() {
	echo '<style>
		#postbox-container-2 { clear: left; }
		.index-php #postbox-container-2 { clear: none; }
	</style>';
}

Obviously it would be better if the plugin itself were patched to resolve the issue.

FWIW I see the exact same issue and have come here to see if there’s a solution

I had a similar issue; turned out to be a conflict with an outdated version of the Search and Filter Pro plugin. Took me a while to find though – checking the browser console for error message helped.

Weird that this randomly started happening in the last few days, seemingly unconnected with any other changes, though.

I have the same issue.

This seems likely to be an issue with Freemius, which has a recently-identified security issue.

I’ve solved temporarily by downgrading to the previous version of this plugin, 2.22, since the only change with 2.23 appears to be Freemius integration.

Thanks for this. It would be onerous to add this on 50+ sites. Will that change be made to an imminent future version of backwpup? Before the long-lasting Dropbox tokens are deprecated?

I had the issue happen again last night on three sites with small backups.

OK so I only had one site fail last night, and this one site had failed every day since I updated.

I deleted the Dropbox authentication on this site and then reinstated it, and manually ran the backup again. This time, it worked.

So maybe worth trying this for any backups which are failing? I’ll be interested to see whether there’s any difference tonight when WP Cron kicks the same job off.