Activity Log

The Activity Log panel appears at the top of the plugin admin page, above the Local Backups and Cloud Backups tabs. It gives you a real-time, timestamped record of everything the plugin does — useful for verifying that scheduled jobs ran, diagnosing sync failures, or copying a log dump for support.

What gets logged:

• Backup created — filename and size (e.g. bkup_f42.zip (18.3 MB)).
• Scheduled backup starting — components included (database, media, plugins, etc.).
• Cloud sync result per provider — S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive each log success or failure immediately after a backup.
• Manual cloud sync — when you click Sync Latest for any provider.
• Cloud connection tests — pass or fail result for S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive.
• Settings saved — local schedule, retention, S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, AMI, and cloud schedule settings all log when saved.
• AMI creation started — AMI ID, name, and instance ID logged on success; error details logged on failure.
• AMI state transitions (pending → available) detected during background polling.
• Retention deletions — each local backup deleted by the retention policy is logged with the retention limit.
• Selective restore initiated and completed — filename and table list logged at start and finish.
• Full restore and restore-from-upload — start and completion (or failure) with filename.
• Backup downloaded — logged when an admin downloads a backup zip.
• Backup deleted — filename logged when an admin deletes a backup.
• Automatic Crash Recovery events — pre-update backup, monitoring start, rollback triggered (with trigger reason and HTTP code), rollback complete.
• Plugin activated and deactivated.
• Errors and exceptions — all caught exceptions log the message and context before returning an error to the UI.

Entry colours:

• Green — success: backup completed, sync OK, deletion confirmed.
• Teal — in-progress: starting, running, retrying.
• Red — error: failed, skipped, aborted, access denied.
• Grey — informational: all other events.

Controls:

• Copy — copies all visible log lines (with timestamps) to the clipboard as plain text. Paste directly into a support ticket or bug report.
• Refresh — manually reloads the log. The panel also auto-refreshes every 5 seconds while the page is open.
• Clear — permanently erases all log entries from the database. Cannot be undone.

The log displays up to 100 entries and auto-scrolls to the newest entry on each refresh. Entries are stored in wp_options (key cs_activity_log). Background sync workers write temporary per-job entries (keys like cs_log_*) which are merged into the main log on the next load.

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