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#42820 Backups not uploading to Google

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
5.4.3
PHP version
8.3
Akeeba Backup version
10.3.2

Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 22 March 2026 12:22 CDT

Saturday, 21 March 2026 19:10 CDT

rocher

Hi Nicholas,

The size of my Akeeba backups and the time to finish the backup process was growing, so I did some website admin, cleaning up files on my main website, tallandtrue.com.au. 

My largest folder was /administrator/components/com_akeebabackup/backup, but that's because I take regular backups and hadn't managed my backups, deleting duplicate-days and well out-of-date files for a long time.

After doing this, I opened my Google Drive to delete the associated backups in the website folder. However, I discovered the last backup file in the folder was from mid-February.

I checked my other Joomla and WordPress backup folders (I use Akeeba for both) and found the same result. There were no recent backups. 

I've not had any error messages during the Akeeba backup process on and, although the backups for tallandtrue.com.au and the WordPress website are large files (370 Mb and 382 Mb respectively), the backup my latest Joomla site is only 66 Mb. 

As Akeeba is not displaying error messages, I suspect the problem lies with either my websites host (VentraIP) or Google. I've attached the latest log file from a tallandtrue.com.au backup to Google (again, no error messages and the file was not in the Google Drive folder), hoping this might help point in the right direction.

Regards, 

Robert Fairhead

Sunday, 22 March 2026 12:22 CDT

nicholas

I do not see any problems in your log file. You have configured Google Drive correctly, it connects correctly, and it appears to be uploading the files just fine. In fact, I see that each 10 MiB chunk takes about 2 seconds to upload which is a reasonable amount of time; I would be worried if I saw it taking under a second as it's physically impossible – and I literally mean "faster than speed of light" kind of impossible.

Please check your Google Drive trash folder. If you deleted a folder that has the same name as the folder you are uploading the backup archives into (or at least the same name as one of its parent directories) you might end up uploading directly to trash. Yes, I know, it is insane. I am doing exactly what the Google Drive API documentation says to avoid it but for some (not all!!!) Google Drive accounts it seems to have no effect. I have seen other people reporting the exact same thing for years, and nobody at Google seems to care – quite unsurprisingly, I might add. The workaround I've found is moving the files to the correct folder by hand, then removing the problematic folder from Google Drive's trash completely. Once it's fully deleted, the Google Drive API no longer resolves the upload path to the trashed directory.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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