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#13154 Confirm #13108, PHP 5.2.9 culprit, installed latest Alpha and it works!

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 03 August 2012 10:02 CDT

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Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.6
PHP version: 5.2.9
MySQL version: 5.1.35
Host: AISO.net (Apache/2.2.3 CentOS)
Akeeba Backup version: Last Stable


Description of my issue: After last upgrade the restore point fails when installing anything that required an incremental backup, posts 500 error. I followed the instructions (below) and tried the upgrade link in Admin Tools (which had failed before), it worked.

I read: "#13108: Restore Point / Akeeba Installer broken since upgrade." to understand the problem. Thanks for great products and your excellent support ticket system.

Your complete instructions are here:

It turns out that Akeeba Backup 3.6.0's System Restore Points feature is not compatible with PHP 5.3 and I never tested it with PHP 5.2 (I only tested full backup scenarios with PHP 5.2). The incompatibility was introduced due to the changes I made to make the component compatible with the upcoming Joomla! 3.0. I have good news, though! It seems that there is a workaround. Please download and install the latest dev release. Don't freak out because it's listed as alpha; it's very stable. The only changes since 3.6.0 are the bug fix in question and a CSS fix for the Live Update icon floating behind the right-hand column in Akeeba Backup's Control Panel page.

In order to test the dev release please disable the "System - System Restore Points" plugin and install the dev release on top of your existing version. Then re-enable the "System - System Restore Points" and try installing another extension so that you trigger the system restore points. The SRP backup should complete successfully and the extension installed.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hello Jerry,

In the meantime I published version 3.6.1 which fixes this issue, after several successful reports from users installing the alpha version :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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