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#20917 Backup success but error warning

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 11 September 2014 06:26 CDT

nukemedia
Hi, I'm getting the php notice below (and have done for a while).

It seems to back up fine and works with small and large part sizes, but I still get this notice each time... I'm backing up to dropbox...

If I run Alice I get the errors below, but they don't seem to matter and I have tried what it says...

------ Alice start ------

Backup engine state saving issues
Error
Backup engine died without its state having been saved. The engine was stepped 14 times, saved 0 times
Please check if you have enough disk space; if your part size is more than 5Mb (or it's 0) please try part sizes of 20, 10, 5 and 2Mb.
If you still get this error, change time settings inside Akeeba Backup for WordPress; try minimum execution time 1, maximum 7 and runtime bias 50. If this doesn't work try minimum 5, maximum 3 (yes, max is less than min) and bias 50.
Timeout while backing up
Error
There is already an issue with the backup engine saving its state. Please fix it before continuing.
Please try setting min execution time to 1, max execution time to 10 seconds (or if the PHP timeout is less than 10 seconds, use 75% of the PHP timeout), runtime bias 75%

----- End Alice ------

---- Email notification start - - - -

PHP Notice: Undefined variable: argv in /var/www/vhosts/nukephoto.co.uk/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp1/app/cli/backup.php on line 106
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.14
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=usm5fr47m8ti3sq6virsfk71e1; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-type: text/html

Akeeba Solo CLI 1.1.0 (2014-09-10)
Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos / Akeeba Ltd
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Akeeba Solo is Free Software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 3 or, at your option, any later version.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY as per sections 15 & 16 of the
license. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html for details.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You are using PHP 5.5.14 (cgi-fcgi)

Starting a new backup with the following parameters:
Profile ID 1
Description "Command-line backup"

Current memory usage: 2.92 Mb

Unsetting time limit restrictions.

Site paths determined by this script:
APATH_BASE : /var/www/vhosts/nukephoto.co.uk/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp1/app
Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:11:03 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : init
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 4.29 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:11:03 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : installer
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 4.35 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:11:04 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : PackDB
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 5.81 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:11:13 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : Packing
Step : /var/www/vhosts/nukephoto.co.uk/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/images
Substep :
Memory used : 6 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:11:43 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step : Post-processing
Substep : site-www.nukephoto.co.uk-20140911-081101.j01
Memory used : 6.55 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:12:07 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step : Post-processing
Substep : site-www.nukephoto.co.uk-20140911-081101.j02
Memory used : 6.55 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:12:31 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step : Post-processing
Substep : site-www.nukephoto.co.uk-20140911-081101.j03
Memory used : 6.55 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:12:54 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step : Post-processing
Substep : site-www.nukephoto.co.uk-20140911-081101.j04
Memory used : 6.55 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:13:18 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step : Post-processing
Substep : site-www.nukephoto.co.uk-20140911-081101.j05
Memory used : 6.55 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:13:42 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step : Post-processing
Substep : site-www.nukephoto.co.uk-20140911-081101.j06
Memory used : 6.55 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:13:44 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 7.36 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:13:44 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 7.36 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2014-09-11 08:13:44 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : finale
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 7.36 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Backup job finished successfully after approximately 2 minutes
Peak memory usage: 46.81 Mb

---- email end----

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
If the backup has completed successfully, without errors, the results of ALICE will be wrong. ALICE is designed to work with logs of failed backups and for this reason it makes a few assumptions. These assumptions do not hold true on successful backups, hence the misleading messages.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

nukemedia
Hi, thanks for your swift reply, appreciate it...

Can the email message be explained? i.e. the Undefined variable....

PHP Notice: Undefined variable: argv in /var/www/vhosts/nukephoto.co.uk/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp1/app/cli/backup.php on line 106

Thanks,

Mat.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
The undefined variable warning message is displayed because you are using the PHP executable for CGI/FastCGI, not the one for CLI. In your particular case you can safely ignore it.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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