# Automated backups not being triggered because cannot allocate memory

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automated-backups-not-being-triggered-because-cannot-allocate-memory/64265 "2017-06-09T20:59:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automated-backups-not-being-triggered-because-cannot-allocate-memory/64265/2 "2017-06-09T21:05:28Z")

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> [@yanokwa](#):
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> Job exception: Cannot allocate memory - fork(2)

If you are constantly swapping 1GB, you need more memory on this server.

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