So after a few months of working fine, the daily backup has started repeating again today (Monday 20 April). Nothing has been changed on our side, and yet we have muliple emails arriving – 2-3 a minute – all confirming that the backup is fine.
I’ll take the same grabs as before and post them here:
LOG: https://pastebin.com/F0VT4bmq
SNIP OF THE CONTROL BOARD: https://snipboard.io/C47OXh.jpg
SNIP OF THE LATEST EMAIL (15:23): https://snipboard.io/CigsTP.jpg
If you need to see anything else then please shout … as before I’ve no idea why this is happening!
We have no other Databases present at this time …
Thanks — David
Hi there. I wasn’t sure what you wanted a snip of …
So here’s one filtered on UPDRAFT and it looks the same as before to me:
https://snipboard.io/g1bnhl.jpg
And here’s more which is the whole list:
https://snipboard.io/TQy674.jpg
https://snipboard.io/fIp6YT.jpg
https://snipboard.io/reJ86m.jpg
https://snipboard.io/UyoC0d.jpg
Thanks! I have done that. I will pop a screenshot of the Crontrol tomorrow morning …
And … no issues at all with the backups on Mon and Tues – just one taken each time as expected.
Looks like it stopped at 15:08 with 82 emails received in the hour, and I presume 82 backups taken in the hour …
The last 15 show on the Updraft dash (I have it set to keep the last 14 backup files only) and also there are only the last 14 on the Google Drive.
Here’s the logfile as at around 15:28 … https://pastebin.com/Vg0SDw2h
This only seems to show the last one at 15:08 …
I checked the Google Drive where the backups are placed and there are indeed multiple files, one for each backup … currently at 14:37 there are 14 saved files there covering 1426 to 1437 … I *think* it might be deleting an older one each time …
Here’s a snip of the CRON events currently taking place: https://snipboard.io/gz8nRU.jpg
It includes the Updraft one but says it was once and 20 mins ago … but it’s now taken 31 backups of the database (I have had 31 emails as of 14:31).
This suggests to me that Updraft is initiated once, but for some reason is looping and taking multiple backups – is it correctly identifying that the previous backup was successful? It feels like it’s just trying again and again …
Hi there. Updraft has started taking multiple backups today again – Sunday 25th Jan 2026.
This started at 14:08 and is still continuing at 14:16 with 12 backup emails received so far.
The Log is here as of 14:17: https://pastebin.com/khuG1kBG
Here’s a screenshot of all the backups as well:
https://snipboard.io/QAzoUZ.jpg
I’m assuming it will carry on for an hour and then stop which is what it has done before … I will post again when it does stop to confirm how many it did this time.
As mentioned above, I deleted the additional STAGING Database so that should not be there … so any other ideas as to why this is happening?
Thanks – David
Thanks so much … As mentioned, I have now deleted the staging copy of the site, so let’s see if this recurrs again … if it does I’ll post the logs etc as before …
Thanks for the help!
Hi there – yes, I mentioned that we had an old STAGING site setup and I think this caused ONE of all those extra emails and backups (from the emails). I have now deleted the Staging site and we will see if this makes any difference if it happens again. It seems odd that this would cause the main site backup to just randomly loop like that though … and as mentioned, this doesn’t happen every day, just twice now and with no apparent reason.
I checked on PhP MyAdmin and we don’t seem to have any other databases there now other than those I would expect to see.
Hi there – no problem. Hopefully the log is here: https://pastebin.com/EBGdbzS5
Let me know if there’s an issue …
I spotted through this that we still had a Staging site in place, so I have deleted that now. But this should only have produced ONE more backup of the Database etc as a result of it being there.
Hi there – and it’s happening again today (Saturday 10 January).
I’m writing this at 14:45 and we’ve had 26 emails telling us the backup has been successful since 14:08.
Here’s a snip of the first one: https://snipboard.io/JUcSGB.jpg
And the last one: https://snipboard.io/FLe0C6.jpg
Checking the logs etc on the site, and I can see 15 successful Database updates have been logged.
And here’s a screenshot of the control panel: https://snipboard.io/X5xmd6.jpg
Here’s the log file
[ SNIP! ]
The log I cut and pasted is all I had at the time you asked for it … I think it had rolled over and the older elements were no longer there. Sadly I can’t do anything about that! Unless they are hidden somewhere on the site and I don’t know how to find them.
However the issue has not recurred – every day since we have just seen one backup taken and one email sent … so whatever it was that was glitching then seems to have stopped glitching now.
If it happens again then I will post here again, so maybe we can put this down to a glitch somewhere which caused it to repeatedly take the same backup for an hour.
Hi – I can but I can’t see how to attach images here though. The only option is to link to a URL …
Here’s a text version:
Existing backups 17
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Dec 09, 2025 14:08
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Dec 08, 2025 14:07
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Dec 07, 2025 14:08
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Dec 06, 2025 23:54
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Dec 05, 2025 14:58
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Dec 05, 2025 14:56
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Dec 05, 2025 14:55
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Dec 05, 2025 14:53
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Dec 05, 2025 14:53
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Dec 03, 2025 14:08
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Nov 26, 2025 14:09
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