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#11346 Cronjob failed to remove old backup file

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 18:00 CDT

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I am using Akeeba Backup Professional and have set up cronjobs to automate backups on 4 domains. These are running successfully apart from one small problem. I have set the backup count quota to only retain 2 backups. The cronjob deletes the old backups as expected but reports that it was unable to delete them. So our backups are in the state that we want them to be in, but the cron report always contains warnings.

This isn't a huge problem but if it creates warnings every time it will make it difficult to see when there are genuine errors/warnings occurring.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hm, are these always the same backup files it refuses to delete? In that case, you can delete all but the latest backup and that should fix the problem.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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It doesn't actually refuse to delete anything. The number of backups retained is correct and the old backups are deleted as expected. The problem is that despite deleting all the correct backups, the cronjob report always contains warnings that the backups were unable to be deleted (when in fact they were deleted successfully). It is these false warnings that I'd like to prevent.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Please ZIP and attach your backup log file.

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!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

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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