Comments for Michael De Wildt http://www.mikeyd.com.au An uber nerd rambling about open source, PHP, Python and whatever I find interesting Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:55:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on WordPress Backup to Dopbox 0.9.2 by Steven Stern http://www.mikeyd.com.au/2011/12/22/wordpress-backup-to-dopbox-0-9-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8865 Steven Stern Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:55:11 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?p=615#comment-8865 Never mind... found it. clicked monitor backups, then stop backup. System said "no backup was running", then I had a "start backup now" button. Never mind… found it. clicked monitor backups, then stop backup. System said “no backup was running”, then I had a “start backup now” button.

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dopbox 0.9.2 by Steven Stern http://www.mikeyd.com.au/2011/12/22/wordpress-backup-to-dopbox-0-9-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8864 Steven Stern Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:50:56 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?p=615#comment-8864 Did the "backup now" button disappear? I want to do an upgrade to 3.3.1 and want to back up first, but I can't find the button to "backup now" Did the “backup now” button disappear? I want to do an upgrade to 3.3.1 and want to back up first, but I can’t find the button to “backup now”

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dropbox by Mikey http://www.mikeyd.com.au/projects/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/comment-page-9/#comment-8478 Mikey Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:37:56 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?page_id=373#comment-8478 Thanks mate Thanks mate

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dropbox by Mikey http://www.mikeyd.com.au/projects/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/comment-page-9/#comment-8477 Mikey Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:37:40 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?page_id=373#comment-8477 Cheers! Cheers!

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dropbox by Mikey http://www.mikeyd.com.au/projects/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/comment-page-9/#comment-8476 Mikey Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:37:30 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?page_id=373#comment-8476 Gday Diyan, This feature has been requested a lot however it is not something that will work with everyone. I am planning to get it into a version in the future. Watch this space! Cheers, Mikey Gday Diyan,

This feature has been requested a lot however it is not something that will work with everyone.

I am planning to get it into a version in the future. Watch this space!

Cheers,
Mikey

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dropbox by Mikey http://www.mikeyd.com.au/projects/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/comment-page-9/#comment-8475 Mikey Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:36:16 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?page_id=373#comment-8475 Gday Dereck, Awesome work getting to the bottom of this issue. If you could put your extra code into a pull request on GitHub that would be awesome. That way I can review it and consider adding it as a feature. Cheers, Mikey Gday Dereck,

Awesome work getting to the bottom of this issue.

If you could put your extra code into a pull request on GitHub that would be awesome. That way I can review it and consider adding it as a feature.

Cheers,
Mikey

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dropbox by Val http://www.mikeyd.com.au/projects/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/comment-page-10/#comment-8345 Val Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:04:26 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?page_id=373#comment-8345 Thanks for your efforts on this. I really want it to work, but have installed this plugin on 9 sites and only two of them seem to ever complete a backup. Like many others here, I keep getting the messages about Backup Started and then Backup error The backup process appears to have gone away. Resuming backup. Never a complete message and there are no files on Dropbox in the folder where it is directed to backup. Thanks for your efforts on this. I really want it to work, but have installed this plugin on 9 sites and only two of them seem to ever complete a backup. Like many others here, I keep getting the messages about Backup Started and then Backup error The backup process appears to have gone away. Resuming backup. Never a complete message and there are no files on Dropbox in the folder where it is directed to backup.

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dropbox by Derek Lee http://www.mikeyd.com.au/projects/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/comment-page-9/#comment-8225 Derek Lee Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:41:02 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?page_id=373#comment-8225 I wanted to share my experience with this plugin for the author (Mikey) and other users who might be having similar issues as I had. I tried the WordPress Backup to Dropbox and didn't have any luck at first - similar to some of the users here - and I wasn't sure what the plug-in was getting held up on. After some research, it appeared to me that the StatPress plug-in that I'm using just had too much data in the table that it was using and it was taking too long (maybe timing out?) trying to grab all of that data. Given that this data really isn't important for a backup (to me, in my opinion), I decided to write some extra code which would allow me to configure a list of database tables to exclude from the backup, and I added this table to that list. Once I did this - then the backup started to work like magic and I haven't had any problems since! Both the website files and the database export are being backed up now and it's working great. I would guess that other users might have this or a similar statistics plug-in installed which may be causing errors. Mikey - you may want to consider adding this type of configuration to the plug-in, or if you'd like I can send you the code/adjustments that I made if that helps. Regardless, now that I've got things working I have to say this plug-in is slick and is working well - thank you for sharing this with the community! Best, Derek Lee I wanted to share my experience with this plugin for the author (Mikey) and other users who might be having similar issues as I had.

I tried the WordPress Backup to Dropbox and didn’t have any luck at first – similar to some of the users here – and I wasn’t sure what the plug-in was getting held up on. After some research, it appeared to me that the StatPress plug-in that I’m using just had too much data in the table that it was using and it was taking too long (maybe timing out?) trying to grab all of that data.

Given that this data really isn’t important for a backup (to me, in my opinion), I decided to write some extra code which would allow me to configure a list of database tables to exclude from the backup, and I added this table to that list. Once I did this – then the backup started to work like magic and I haven’t had any problems since! Both the website files and the database export are being backed up now and it’s working great.

I would guess that other users might have this or a similar statistics plug-in installed which may be causing errors. Mikey – you may want to consider adding this type of configuration to the plug-in, or if you’d like I can send you the code/adjustments that I made if that helps.

Regardless, now that I’ve got things working I have to say this plug-in is slick and is working well – thank you for sharing this with the community!

Best,

Derek Lee

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dropbox by Diyan http://www.mikeyd.com.au/projects/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/comment-page-9/#comment-8209 Diyan Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:09:37 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?page_id=373#comment-8209 Hey Mike, I really enjoy the plugin but can you please an option to gzip and then upload? Having all these dropbox notifications is quite odd Thanks! Keep up the great work! Hey Mike,

I really enjoy the plugin but can you please an option to gzip and then upload?

Having all these dropbox notifications is quite odd

Thanks!
Keep up the great work!

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup to Dropbox by Toby Adams http://www.mikeyd.com.au/projects/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/comment-page-9/#comment-8174 Toby Adams Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:15:18 +0000 http://www.mikeyd.com.au/?page_id=373#comment-8174 This is an amazing plugin, thank you. This is an amazing plugin, thank you.

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