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One of the great tools that you can use with the WordPress Total Upkeep backup plugin<\/a> is the Preflight Check<\/span>. The Preflight Check<\/span> is used to test your site to see if it can perform a backup with no issues. It also provides a lot of information about your site that is important to managing your site and ensuring the success of your WordPress backup. Follow the directions to learn about the options and sections that you get with the Total Upkeep<\/span>. Here’s an example of a Preflight Check<\/span> screen from the Total Upkeep<\/span> tool:<\/p>\n

Login to the WordPress Dashboard<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Scroll down the menu in the left column and click on Total Upkeep<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  - Hover or click on the Total Upkeep<\/span>. Click on Preflight Check<\/span> in the menu in order to run the check<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    At the very top of the Preflight Check screen, you will see the Functionality test status. If everything works okay then your status will say PASS<\/strong> <\/span>in green. If it fails you will see a FAIL<\/strong> <\/span>indicator along with information about what’s causing the failure.<\/p>\n
    Troubleshooting Preflight check fails:<\/h3>\n\n
    The Preflight check is for checking minimum requirements to create a backup. If Preflight check does not pass, the plugin will not even attempt to make a backup.<\/li>\n
    For those backups that actually start but don’t finish, the Preflight check will not reveal any info to help troubleshoot. Instead, see the “troubleshooting” section<\/a> of our “how to backup” article for further assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Using the WordPress Backup Preflight Check<\/h2>\n
    General Tests<\/h3>\n
    The first section is called General Tests<\/span> and includes the settings for the home directory and the defined location of the WordPress directory. It also includes the document root where site files are published to the internet, the user name for the account, PHP safe mode setting, file system method, WordPress version, and the Server time and date. Here’s a sample of that list:<\/p>\n
    User home directory:        \/home\/example1 (711)\r\nUser home directory writable?        Yes\r\nWordPress directory:        \/home\/example1\/public_html\/example1.com\/\r\nWordPress directory writable?        Yes\r\nDocument root:        \/home\/example1\/public_html\r\nCurrent user:        example1\r\nPHP in safe mode?        No\r\nFilesystem Method        direct\r\nWordPress version:        5.0.3\r\nServer time zone:        -05:00 \/ -05\r\nServer date: Tue Feb 5 14:01:07 EST 2019<\/pre>\n
    All of the information comes from the server that you are using to host your BoldGrid site. Note that the User home directory includes the permissions set for the folder.<\/p>\n
    Backup Directory and Permissions<\/h3>\n
    Here you can see the location set for the backup directory<\/a> as well its permissions.<\/p>\n
    Possible backup directory parents:        \/home\/example1\r\n \/home\/example1\/public_html\/example1.com\/wp-content\r\nBackup directory:        \/home\/example1\/boldgrid_backup\r\nBackup directory without ABSPATH:        \/home\/example1\/boldgrid_backup\r\nBackup directory exists?        Yes\r\nBackup directory has read permission?        Yes\r\nDirectory listing of backup directory can be fetched?        Yes\r\nBackup directory has write permission?        Yes\r\nBackup directory has modify permission?        Yes\r\nBackup directory has delete permission?<\/pre>\n
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    Compressors<\/h3>\n
    The Compressors<\/strong> section includes the compression applications loaded on the server. These applications are used to compress files on your server in order to save storage space.<\/p>\n
    PHP ZipArchive available?        No\r\nPclZip available?        Yes\r\nPclZip test passed?        Yes\r\nPHP Bzip2 available?        No\r\nPHP Zlib available?        Yes\r\nPHP LZF available?        No\r\nSystem TAR available?        Yes\r\nSystem ZIP available?        Yes<\/pre>\n
    <\/h3>\n
    Cron<\/h3>\n
    Cron<\/strong> is a time-based job scheduling program that runs on the server. There is an option here to test that cron jobs are running. Any scheduled cron job would be listed in this section. These cron jobs can typically include scheduled backups.<\/p>\n
    System crontab available?        Yes\r\nPHP allow_url_fopen enabled?        No\r\nCurl SSL enabled?        No\r\nCan fetch a remote url via CLI?        No\r\nCron time zone matches server time zone?         \r\nRun Test (Test may take up to 25 minutes to complete)\r\nCron jobs:        \r\nMethod used to read cron:        Crontab output to file.\r\nWP Cron enabled?        Yes\r\nWP Cron jobs:<\/pre>\n
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    Disk Space<\/h3>\n
    Here you can see the disk space available for the backup. This is important information that you will need to determine if you can back up your site without any issues.<\/p>\n
    Remote Storage<\/h4>\n
    Even though the backup file is on the server, you should make it a point to copy the backup off the server<\/a> so that you both preserve your hard drive space and also keep your backup off of your server hard drive. Offsite backups help protect your site in the event of catastrophic server loss. Copying your backup to another location ensures that though your server may go down, you have a working copy of your site in a safe location.<\/p>\n
    Disk Usage Restrictions<\/h4>\n
    There are a lot of WordPress hosting providers<\/a> that offer unlimited disk space. Even though it is “unlimited”, it doesn’t mean you can store gigabytes upon gigabytes of backups. Many hosts have restrictions as to what the disk space can actually be used for, so you’ll want to pay close attention to your disk usage.<\/p>\n
    Directory used to calculatedisk space:        \/home\/example1\/\r\nDisk total space:         300.00 GB\r\nDisk used space:         15.00 GB\r\nDisk free space:         285.00 GB\r\nWordPress directory size:         130.0 MB\r\nEstimated free space after backup:         284.75 GB<\/pre>\n
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    Database<\/h3>\n
    WordPress is a website solution that utilizes a web server and a database server.<\/a> Depending on your hosting solution, the database server may be on the same server as your web server. In some cases, your database may be larger than your actual website files, so the information provided in this section can play an important part of planning for making backups and knowing when you may need to optimize or remove older content that may no longer be necessary.<\/p>\n
    Database size:        2.00 MB\r\nWordPress database charset:        utf8mb4\r\nWordPress database collate:        utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci<\/pre>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Using the WordPress Backup Preflight Check<\/h2>\n

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Disk Space<\/h3>\nHere you can see the disk space available for the backup. This is important information that you will need to determine if you can back up your site without any issues.<\/p>\n

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Disk Space<\/h3>\n
Here you can see the disk space available for the backup. This is important information that you will need to determine if you can back up your site without any issues.<\/p>\n