Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Tuesday, 31 July 2012 10:15 CDT

inetis

Mandatory information about my setup:

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Description of my issue:

Hi,

I want do do a cron task on ~50 websites in a row.
It's impossible to do it with the curl method as the timeout will do it fail. It's impossible to do it with the api because I only use the startBackup method and the backukp stays pending.

Do you have an Idea about why it stays pending ? Is there a command to send to finish the backup ?
Or do you have a better idea ?

Thanks a lot

Tuesday, 31 July 2012 10:21 CDT

nicholas

Hello Piere,

If you use the API you have to use the startBackup method to start a backup, then use the stepBackup to continue on stepping through the backup until the backup is over. See how I do it in the cli/akeeba-backup.php script.

Which brings me to the next point. If all 50 sites are on the same host it suffices to create a shell script like this:

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/php /path/to/site1/cli/akeeba-backup.php
/path/to/php /path/to/site2/cli/akeeba-backup.php
/path/to/php /path/to/site3/cli/akeeba-backup.php
 # and so on and on and on and on...

Of course you can do similar stuff with the Remote CLI tool or with your own custom code. Then all you have to do is run this script through CRON. Or, even simpler, you can create 50 CRON jobs, one for each site (which is better as you get better control at each site's backup).

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Thursday, 02 August 2012 01:18 CDT

inetis

Hello,

Ok, I'll do like I'm doing now, I'll just add the steps.

Thanks for your precious help.

Thursday, 02 August 2012 01:20 CDT

nicholas

You're welcome, Pierre!

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!

Saturday, 01 September 2012 18:00 CDT

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