Large site first backups take hours or weeks
Initial full backups of large sites crawl for hours or weeks and often stall before finishing.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
8 public reports · first reported 6 April 2021 · last reported 26 May 2026
What's going wrong
The first full backup of a large WordPress site can run for hours, days or even weeks, and some owners report it stalling at a few percent or at 98 percent.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 8 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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