All Good Things Must Come To An End

As you all know, I have been doing WordPress plugins and supporting it for the past 6 years. These 6 years of my life, I have been through my polytechnic education, my national service as well as my university education.

I just graduated from university in December 2009 and have been looking for full-time jobs. I am offered a full-time job and will be starting work on 1st February 2010.

I regret to say that I am NOT ABLE to provide support for my plugins anymore due to my full-time job commitment. I will leave this forum open and let the community help one another.

However, I WILL still update my plugins whenever I can and you still can report bugs to me via email and I will try to fix it.

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Offline frustrated

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Unable to receive email backups
« on: 31 July 2009, 18:38 »
   1.  WordPress Version 2.8.2
   2. Theme Name Arclite
   3. Blog URL healeyvisual.com
   4. Problem Plugin Name And Version  WP-DB Manager 2.5
   5. PHP And MYSQL Version  PHP Version 5.2.8 and   5.0.77-community-log
   6. Possible Conflicting Plugins (Optional)

I have tried using the automatic emailling of scheduled backups as well as the on demand email of any backups and never receive any of these backups. Have disabled the plugins and reverted back to the WP default theme without affect. Also have looked at the server logs and can not spot anything.

Any ideas?
 
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Re: Unable to receive email backups
« Reply #1 on: 01 August 2009, 00:53 »
Found the problem the ISP at the destination was blacklisting the webhosts IP so the email was being rejected. Used a different email message and the ondemand backup is being emailed now.
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Re: Unable to receive email backups
« Reply #2 on: 02 August 2009, 17:24 »
Well the on demand backups are being emailed but the plugin shows the backup is to occur at 8:07PM. Well I never got any emailed backups until 11:35 AM the next day. Checking the plugin shows no backup was done at 8:07PM the prior day and all of the servers for the hosting company are located in the USA so the time difference is max 2 hrs difference from me.

Any idea why the plugin is not doing scheduled backups at the appointed time? Also is there any way of setting what time the backups occur?
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Re: Unable to receive email backups
« Reply #3 on: 02 August 2009, 17:58 »
Do note that this is a "fake" cron and not a true cron. I don't get my backup on time as well, it can be a few hours difference for me.

The time is set when you save settings in WP-Admin -> Database -> DB Options. So if you save your settings at 2pm today, and your cron is set at 1 day, it will be 2pm the next day.
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Re: Unable to receive email backups
« Reply #4 on: 02 August 2009, 18:27 »
Understand that but the job is not being run at all. The plugin shows the next run time but the backup is not done.
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Re: Unable to receive email backups
« Reply #5 on: 03 August 2009, 05:09 »
That is weird, can you try to uninstall the plugin and install again or see if you can install a fresh copy of WP in your server somewhere to see if it is the same issue or alt you may want to try this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/
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Re: Unable to receive email backups
« Reply #6 on: 03 August 2009, 16:33 »
Does the plugin actually create a linux cron job or what is actually doing the scheduling and running of the backup?
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Re: Unable to receive email backups
« Reply #7 on: 03 August 2009, 16:44 »
nope it is hooking onto WordPress pesudo cron and hence it is not true cron.
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