Proper use of the 'Automatic Wordpress Backup' plugin

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'Automatic Wordpress Backup' is a plugin that periodically creates a backup of your wordpress site. I does this by leveraging the 'WP-Cron plugin'. Unfortunately, 'WP-Cron' has a few problems. If your site doesn't get a lot of traffic, 'WP-Cron' will not reliably trigger the 'Automatic Wordpress Backup' tasks. If you get a decent amount of traffic, 'WP-Cron' can cause 'Automatic Wordpress Backup' to run multiple instances concurrently which becomes a major problem very quickly.

To resolve all of these problems, you should disable 'WP-Cron' through your wp-config.php file, by adding `define( 'DISABLE_WP_CRON', true );`. Then, you should set up a normal cron to access the wp-cron.php file directly.

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