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Dropbox [resolved] Backup very, very slow (5 posts)    1.
IanForster     Posted 2 years ago #      Started backup at
11:36. By 23:00 it had only completed 115MB of 223MB 51.5% in
11h 24mins!      The plugin doesn't seem to do any more than I
have been doing by copying the entire HTDOCS folder to my hard
drive using FTP. And that only takes 15 mins.      Am I missing
something or is it just another poor plugin??     2. Michael De
Wildt     Plugin Author      Posted 2 years ago #      The
backup relies on wp-cron.php that is a quasi cron task in the
WordPress core. It relies on traffic to your website to kick off
tasks.      So, hypothetically, lets say you blog gets 100 hits
a day and your host kills the PHP scripts that run for longer
then 2 mins.      Thats 4 hits an hour, where most of them are
going to happen during peak times. So there can be hours between
hits.      So it does 2 mins of backing up and has to wait an
hour or so before a recover