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#9299 Backup fails but jpa file completes and uploads to dropbox

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:29 CST

user23119
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the forum before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: (unknown)
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Description of my issue:
Hi, I have about 15 sites I backup regularly. I use a folder above my public_html as the temp directory and the jpa files are uploaded to dropbox once created.
The problem I'm having is that quite often my backups will fail with the message:
The backup operation has been halted because an error was detected.
The last error message was:

AJAX Loading Error
HTTP Status: 0 (timeout)
Internal status: timeout
XHR ReadyState: 0
Raw server response:
undefined

OR

AJAX Loading Error
HTTP Status: 0 (error)
Internal status: error
XHR ReadyState: 0
Raw server response:

Even though I get this message 'most' of the time the jpa file will still be uploaded to dropbox. Is this file a corrupt file or would it be ok to use it if I needed to restore my site at some stage? It has the full size (in MB) as other successful jpa backups.
I've attached an example log file.
Thank you.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
This is a server timeout error. Your JPA file is 53.58 Mb long. And you have two HUGE problems:
1. It takes too long to transfer and it throws a timeout error
2. As per our documentation, archives over 50Mb might not be transferred at all to DropBox, due to limitations on DropBox' side.

Have you read the cloud setup part of our documentation? If not, start reading here: https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/akeeba-backup-documentation/step-by-step-guides.html#how-to-cloud-backup If you follow those instructions to the letter you will not have any issues :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user23119
Thank you. Changing the 'part size for archive splitting' to 20 fixed my issues.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome! I'm glad it's all working now :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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