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justliam / wordpress-backup-to-dropbox

A plugin for WordPress that automatically uploads your blogs files and a SQL dump of its database to Dropbox. Giving you piece of mind that your entire blog including its precious posts, images and metadata regularly backed up.
http://wpb2d.com
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Changing the Configuration of the Plugin #165

Closed mzenisek closed 10 years ago

mzenisek commented 10 years ago

I have 3 websites and use the Dropbox plugin for all 3. I was not prompted by the last 2 installs to input my Dropbox info which has led me to believe that all the backup files for all 3 websites are going to the same destination in my Dropbox folder. How do I change this?

Thanks!

mayeenulislam commented 10 years ago

@mzenisek First of all, delete all the already-backed-up-files from the the "Apps" folder in Dropbox. Then, deactivate and delete the plugin in your wp-admin. So that using the https://github.com/michaeldewildt/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/blob/master/uninstall.php the plugin will delete all it's stored info from database. Then from the cPanel PHPmyAdmin check whether it really did this or not. If so, then reinstall it, otherwise delete the "wb2d" table from the db and reinstall the plugin then. After newly installed the plugin, activate the connection and then go the wpb2d Settings. Check on the "Store backup in a subfolder of the wpb2d app folder" and choose a name for the backup. Do the same for all the 3 installation. I hope it'll do what you want. :) (I recently did a similar thing and it solves my problem)

armplinker commented 10 years ago

This recommendation seems drastic. I do have something to suggest however. If it were me, I would put a tiny telltale signature file with a unique name into each website in some private location that can unambiguously demonstrate that the backup in DropBox came from the expected source, or not. In the absence of the file, the backup stuff in DropBox did not come from the unique source website. All 3 or more such files in one location, backups definitely got commingled.

mzenisek commented 10 years ago

Thank you both for your responses. It turns out the plugin was not configured correctly on my site. It has been resolved. Thank you both, again for your time!