Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 07:31 CDT

toomanylogins

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? No
Have I searched the tickets before posting? No
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: (unknown)
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Akeeba Backup version: (unknown)

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Description of my issue:

Seems you cant reply to posts anymore??

This works on plesk 10.x you need php-cgi Run this a scheduled task with user account same as website.

php-cgi /var/www/vhosts/abc.com/httpdocs/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup.php -profile=3

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 07:35 CDT

nicholas

You can reply to posts, but old posts (over 30 days) are automatically closed. There is no point coming back to an ancient thread.

In order to understand what you are asking I need you to at least supply the following mandatory information:

Joomla! version:
PHP version:
Akeeba Backup version:

This will help me understand if you're using a new version of Akeeba Backup released within the last 40 days, which has a slightly different scheduling system and slightly different requirements.

It will also greatly help me if you tell me what the problem is, not only what you're using. I'm rather good at guessing, but not that good :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 19 June 2012 08:01 CDT

toomanylogins

Joomla! version: 2.5.4
PHP version: 5.3
Akeeba Backup vers 3.5.1

Sorry I was trying to reply to another users post from 10/06 so with 30 days. That is the command line you need to run in plesk. it took quite a long time to get it working properly. I couldn't see a reply option for the other post.

In Plesk you use the scheduled tasks to run the backup calling the different profiles. So for example I have a daily joomla backup including the database but without any images. A daily backup of any changes to the images folder and the twice-weekly backup of images only (8gb).

these are setup as three separate cron jobs in Plesk

Regards
Paul

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 08:05 CDT

nicholas

No, you can't reply to other people's threads. Moreover, that thread is very, very, VERY old. Since Akeeba Backup 3.5.a1 the CRON script has changed. Please read our documentation, do not refer to old threads. I can obviously not edit all old support threads. I do update the documentation, though.

Please note that since Akeeba Backup 3.5.a1 we are using Joomla!'s JApplicationCli to deliver the command line backup scripts. As a result, you can no longer use the php-cgi binary. It is mandatory to use the PHP CLI binary. You have to ask your host for the exact path.

Finally, you have to use a double dash, not a single dash, for each option. For example, it's --profile, not -profile. Again, this is because we're using JApplicationCli for the CRON scripts.

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!

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 08:33 CDT

toomanylogins

The thread was only 9 days old. Anyway will look at the new commands. The old system is working ok. I had a lot of trouble trying to get cli working with plesk last time round.

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 08:35 CDT

nicholas

There's no way this applied to version 3.5.x. Maybe we were discussing 3.3.13 or 3.4.3 with that user? Context is king when looking at old threads. It would help me if I knew which thread is that. I reply to seven hundreds of them every month.

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!

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 09:07 CDT

toomanylogins

It was thread 12602.I can confirm that new system works ok on plesk 10.2
command line for ubuntu plesk 10.2 is

/usr/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/xxx.com/httpdocs/cli/akeeba-backup.php --profile=1

To find path to php executable type "which php" in terminal this returns the path.
Regards
Paul

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