{"id":6299,"date":"2016-02-13T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2016-02-13T00:39:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T00:39:49","slug":"wordpress-backup-dropbox-column-offset-errors-filling-web-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/wordpress-backup-dropbox-column-offset-errors-filling-web-space.htm","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Backup to Dropbox column offset errors filling up web space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My website has been chewing through disk space recently.\u00a0I couldn&#8217;t work out why and the largest files a few weeks ago were some webstat logs, so I cleared them down. Tonight, as I couldn&#8217;t upload anything (or\u00a0apply any updates) I hunted around and found a couple of error_log files in my webspace. \u00a0The first related to a PHP file that was reading my Twitter feed using an old\u00a0API and so was repeatedly failing. I removed the log and the offending PHP but that wasn&#8217;t the biggest problem. In\u00a0my blog&#8217;s home folder was a 1.2GB error_log file &#8211; loo big to even read properly in Notepad, Word, or anything else I tried.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to download a partial copy of the file (using Filezilla, then cancelling the transfer after a few seconds and saw lots of lines that contained the following error:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WordPress database error Column &#8216;offset&#8217; cannot be null for query INSERT INTO wp_wpb2d_processed_files (file, uploadid, offset)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That told me it was the (very useful) <a href=\"http:\/\/wpb2d.com\/\">WordPress Backup to Dropbox plugin<\/a>, by Michael de Wildt. I don&#8217;t really want to disable that but luckily I found <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/column-offset-cannot-be-null?replies=20#post-8011504\">a fix on WordPress.org<\/a>, posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/richhelms.com\/\">Rich Helms<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/column-offset-cannot-be-null?replies=20#post-8011504\"><p>The issue is file wordpress-backup-to-dropbox\/Classes\/Processed\/Files.php<\/p>\n<p>Toward the bottom of the program change from<\/p>\n<p><code>$this-&gt;upsert(array(<\/code><br \/>\n<code>'file' =&gt; $file,<\/code><br \/>\n<code>'uploadid' =&gt; null,<\/code><br \/>\n<code>'offset' =&gt; null,<\/code><br \/>\n<code>));<\/code><\/p>\n<p>to<\/p>\n<p><code>$this-&gt;upsert(array(<\/code><br \/>\n<code>'file' =&gt; $file,<\/code><br \/>\n<code>'uploadid' =&gt; null,<\/code><br \/>\n<code>'offset' =&gt; 0,<\/code><br \/>\n<code>));<\/code><\/p>\n<p>so change the offset default from null to 0 and the issue goes away<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure enough, that change seems to have fixed the problem and whilst the edit to the plugin will be over-written with the next release, hopefully that release will also include a permanent fix!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My website has been chewing through disk space recently.\u00a0I couldn&#8217;t work out why and the largest files a few weeks ago were some webstat logs, so I cleared them down. Tonight, as I couldn&#8217;t upload anything (or\u00a0apply any updates) I hunted around and found a couple of error_log files in my webspace. \u00a0The first related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/wordpress-backup-dropbox-column-offset-errors-filling-web-space.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordPress Backup to Dropbox column offset errors filling up web space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-wordpress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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