Backup fails to produce a result

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I'm trying to make a backup prior to doing the first update in a year on my site. When I attempt to run a backup from within the Dashboard, I either get a completely blank web page or one with this message:

"Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/jcarls_ds/ffez.com/site/updates/concrete5.6.1.2_updater/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 644"

My environment information is shown below. Any idea what is happening? I'm trying to upgrade because the current version won't let me edit default page layouts. It shows the layout, then immediately moves to the first page on the site and I wind up editing that instead. Thanks for any help...

Environment info:
# concrete5 Version
5.6.1.2

# concrete5 Packages
AddThis (1.0).

# concrete5 Overrides
themes/default

# Server Software
Apache

# Server API
cgi-fcgi

# PHP Version
5.3.29

# PHP Extensions
bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, Core, ctype, curl, date, dom, ereg, exif, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, iconv, imagick, imap, json, libxml, mbstring, mcrypt, mhash, mysql, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pcre, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, posix, pspell, Reflection, session, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, SPL, SQLite, sqlite3, standard, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib.

# PHP Settings
max_execution_time - 30
log_errors_max_len - 1024
max_file_uploads - 20
max_input_nesting_level - 64
max_input_time - -1
max_input_vars - 1000
memory_limit - 90M
post_max_size - 65M
safe_mode - Off
safe_mode_exec_dir - /usr/local/php/bin
safe_mode_gid - Off
safe_mode_include_dir - <i>no value</i>
sql.safe_mode - Off
upload_max_filesize - 64M
mysql.max_links - Unlimited
mysql.max_persistent - Unlimited
mysqli.max_links - Unlimited
mysqli.max_persistent - Unlimited
pcre.backtrack_limit - 1000000
pcre.recursion_limit - 100000
session.cache_limiter - nocache
session.gc_maxlifetime - 7200
soap.wsdl_cache_limit - 5
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars - PHP_
safe_mode_protected_env_vars - LD_LIBRARY_PATH

 
mesuva replied on at Permalink Reply
mesuva
You should then instead look to do a backup at the cPanel/server level. As a bonus you could also grab a full backup of your files while you are there a well.

The Dashboard backup can be handy as a quick backup, but if you have a larger database or a slower server it can timeout or run out of memory.