I am using B&M on 2 sites, which each have their own installation of Drupal core on Dreamhost. On both sites, the B&M module has automated, scheduled backups to Amazon SSS. I also occasionally do manual backups before upgrades to the site's functionality and whatnot.

I am having multiple issues, each of which I will put in its own request. The biggest and most pressing issue is that after B&M takes a site offline using automated backups, it keeps it offline unless I manually put it back online (via Admin > Site Configuration > Site Maintenance > Online > Save Configuration). I don't think this happens every single day, but it happens about 3 out of every 4 days on each site. Backups are occurring approximately once a day on each site. It doesn't seem to occur following manual backups, on either site.

We are on D6.22 with B&M 6.x-2.4. In addition, there appear to be no major site errors or bugs in one of the sites, which has its own installation. The other site is buggy, so it is only interesting to me because it replicates the behavior.

Other modules that were installed on the non-buggy site before B&M first displayed this behavior, are as follows:

  1. Chaos Tool Suite 6.x-1.8
  2. Administration menu 6.x-1.8
  3. IMCE 6.x-2.3
  4. IMCE Wysiwyg API bridge 6.x-1.1
  5. Nice Menus 6.x-2.1
  6. jQuery Update 6.x-2.0-alpha1
  7. Wysiwyg 6.x-2.4
  8. jQuery UI 6.x-1.5
  9. Google Fonts 6.x-1.7
  10. Path redirect generate 6.x-1.0-rc2 (disabled)
  11. Path redirect 6.x-1.0-rc2
  12. Panels 6.x-3.9
  13. Views 6.x-3.0-rc3 (enabled but no views were created)

Any advice would be welcome! Thanks.

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geneatwell’s picture

geneatwell commented

I see the same issue when I have Backup and Migrate take the site off line and I, too, need to manually put the site back online. Quick backup or timed via cron the site stays offline until I intervene. However, if I do not take the site offline, everything works fine with the backup, but cron sends out the following message an hour after the backup: "Cron channel (default) has been running for more than an 3600 secs and is most likely stuck. Last job executed: backup_migrate_cron." Not sure it the problem is cron or backup related, but cron continues to run every minute and perform its cron duties during that hour according to the log. However, the offline issue occurs only if the site is taken offline by this module.

Drupal 6.22 and Backup and Migrate 6.x-2.4

dc_marc’s picture

dc_marc commented

I installed poormanscron, and it seems so far to have helped the issue. Do you have that installed?

joevansteen’s picture

joevansteen commented
Version: 6.x-2.4 » 7.x-2.4

I am having a similar issue with Drupal 7.14, B&M 7.x-2.4.

I believe "poormanscron" is now built into D7. I was running it for a while, and the problem was occurring then. I have since set it not to run, but use an external cron job. I have a very small DB (site still in the process of having content loaded), so I don't think the time it takes to execute is the problem, but potentially some other interference. I'm running two sites under shared hosting. Both sites exhibit the problem, one more than the other.

patman1706’s picture

patman1706 commented

i have D7.15 and B&M 7.x.2.4 and the same occurs. the maintenance mode appears to be set time to time.
maybe it is the scheduled backup....?
is there any issue for this annoying bug ? (users can't access the site in a random way....)

Romejoe’s picture

Romejoe commented
Version: 7.x-2.4 » 6.x-2.2
Priority: Major » Critical

Same for me even with the old version!
Around every 2 weeks randomly he stays in maintenance mode.

mpisano’s picture

mpisano commented

I have D7.16 and B&M 7.x.2.4 and the same problem, but it happens every day, so I uncheck "Take site offline" in the profile.

tierso’s picture

tierso commented

https://drupal.org/node/2151753

chris79’s picture

chris79 commented

I am seeing this same issue with Drupal 7.33 and B&M 7.x-3.0. Each time the scheduled backup runs the site does not come back online, though the notification email includes the message that it does.

synflag’s picture

synflag commented

7.33 / B M 3

Site visitors Nov 30, 3:00 am: 0

eMail from B&M / Nov 30, 2:16 am:
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Die Sicherung der Website wurde mit den folgenden Nachrichten erfolgreich abgeschlossen:
Site was taken offline.
Site was taken offline.
Site was taken online.
Site was taken online.
Your backup has been saved to your NodeSquirrel account. View it at http://manage.nodesquirrel.com/backups/159ecb665a0a3e....
Standard-Datenbank backed up successfully to CUSTOMER-2014-11-30CET02-15-39 (217.71 MB) in destination NodeSquirrel in 1 Minute 1 Sekunde.
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Best regards

Lars Jendrzejewski

Edit 08. Dez 2014:
Message after handish backup:
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Site was taken offline.
Site was taken online.
Your backup has been saved to your NodeSquirrel account. View it at http://manage.nodesquirrel.com/backups/9d63fa9thde1e52b665afgjf3e
Standard-Datenbank backed up successfully to CUSTOMER-2014-12-08CET01-07-56 (217.15 MB) in destination NodeSquirrel in 1 Minute 20 Sekunden. (herunterladen, wiederherstellen, Löschen)

Die Website befindet sich im Wartungsmodus. Online gehen. <<<<<<<<<--- Maintenance Mode
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couturier’s picture

couturier commented
Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

Drupal 6 and Backup and Migrate 6 are no longer supported.