• Registered: 2005-03-07
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Topic: Backup Failing

I am running Connorhd's Backup mod on my relatively small forum and have started receiving the following error :

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20185082 bytes) in /home/fhlinux168/c/domain.com/user/htdocs/forumroot/plugins/AP_Backup.php on line 98

I haven't changed anything in the file AP_Backup.php so wondering if anyone has any ideas?

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  • sirena
  • sirena
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  • Registered: 2006-04-06
  • Posts: 473

Re: Backup Failing

Sounds like you may be running up against some memory size limits defined in either your PHP (php.ini) or MySQL (my.cnf) setup. You may beed to check what these are with your host.

I am pretty sure the PunBB AP_Backup script doesn't have anything to say about memory limits.

  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
  • Posts: 2,653

Re: Backup Failing

Better start using tools like mysqldump wink
PHP can only so much data, then it runs out of memory.

  • Smartys
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  • Registered: 2004-04-30
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Re: Backup Failing

The AP_Backup tool also creates bad backups the last time I checked