# 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 10, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automated-backups-not-being-triggered-because-cannot-allocate-memory/64265/6 "2017-06-10T00:07:15Z")

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I upgraded from 1 GB to 2 GB box and backups seem to be working now.

```plaintext
              total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2.0G 1.2G 276M 141M 544M 498M
Swap: 2.0G 28M 2.0G

```

If anyone else has this problem, I’d try a reboot first because the Ubuntu box had also recently had kernel upgrades, so maybe that was the issue.

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