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Joomla! version: 2.5.6
PHP version: 5.3.10
MySQL version: 5.0.92
Host: GoDaddy
Akeeba Backup version: 3.5.2
Description of my issue:
I couldn't add on to help others, but thought my couple of weeks of experiments would be helpful for folks. I was unable to get the command line version of the backup script working with GoDaddy but did have success using the frontend backup script. Here is the command I used when configuring the cron job for GoDaddy.
/usr/local/php5/bin/php "$HOME/html/cli/akeeba-altbackup.php"
The PHP executable I am using is the CLI rather than the default CGI and I switched to the akeeba-altbackup.php script. Don't forget to enable frontend backup and insert your secret word. To enable frontend backup go to Akeeba Backup under components, select configuration, select options from the navigation, then select the front-end backup tab to enable the settings.
The standard backend backup script stated it completed successfully in the log file emailed, but the backup file status would always show 'failed'. I did receive a warning in the backend log on the server indicating the script could not send a session cookie headers already sent(line 532). See attached failed and successful jobs. Is there something incorrectly configured in my environment that is keeping the default script from executing properly.