Comments on: Sorry: My blog was UP and then DOWN again

By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:44:43 +0000

@Lee – yes, we have to be careful and BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP and BACKUP.

By: Lee | Money4Invest

Lee | Money4Invest — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:29:17 +0000

I totally understand your feeling. My site also got hacked last week by hacker. The hacker put in malicious folder and changed wordpress password. I don't have idea how the hacker can hack into it. I think everyone should be more careful and do backup more frequently. .-= Lee | Money4Invest´s last blog ..February Calendar 2010 | Calender 1600×1200 Wallpaper =-.

By: SBA

SBA — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:26:59 +0000

See my reply above. Maybe you did a manual backup with messed up the automatic? You may want to check that you have this code in the wp-dbmanager.php: (the missing piece in mine was the "+$backup_options['backup_period']" and "+$backup_options['optimize_period']"

wp_schedule_event(time()+$backup_options['backup_period'], 'dbmanager_backup', 'dbmanager_cron_backup');

wp_schedule_event(time()+$backup_options['optimize_period'], 'dbmanager_optimize', 'dbmanager_cron_optimize');

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By: SBA

SBA — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:21:25 +0000

Yes I had it set for automatic but noticed the date never changed, even when I did the manual the date for the next backup stayed at the wrong time! so I found some code changes that take your backup timing options into consideration when doing the manual. Then if you do another manual the automatic date changes. The original code is supposed to work in WP 2.9.1 which I have, but maybe because I had 2.9, installed the backup plugin then upgraded to 2.9.1?
Anyway it seems to be okay now that I updated the plugin’s php.
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By: Udegbunam Chukwudi

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:58:12 +0000

I had the same experience with dat plug-in a few days back. It suddenly stopped backing up my database. Anyway I went back to AUTOMATIC SCHEDULING and rescheduled it and it working again
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By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:26:51 +0000

@SBA – with WP-DBManager, there is an option of when the backup must be made and optimized. You can go to ‘DB Options’ and look at the bottom by ‘Automatic Scheduling’. All can be set there, let me know if you don’t come right.

By: SBA

SBA — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:39:06 +0000

Very scary. You’re lucky there was a ‘fairly recent’ backup. A few weeks ago, I installed WP on Doreo Host for a client. Also installed a WP plugin for backups: WP-DBManager. I did a manual backup to get things started and set it to take one daily [only 7 are retained, but that's in addition to the automatic host backup]. However, when checking the name of the plugin for you, I found it is NOT taking daily backup… funny. I did another manual backup and will now have to look into this. Getting paranoid, I need to check the host backup too… lol.
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By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:13:22 +0000

@Michael – yes, I was not doing anything. Hope is well on your side, have not heard from you in a while.

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:42:28 +0000

So they “mysteryously” disappear just like that and you weren’t even doing anything to your blog? O_o That’s really scary.. I don’t want to imagine if that’s happening to my blog all of a sudden….
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By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:14:09 +0000

@Ricky – I guess we all learn from each other, lol.