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#13708 Command Line and CRON: The process was aborted on user's request

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 01 October 2012 09:30 CDT

Monday, 01 October 2012 09:24 CDT

user61719
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: 5.3.9
MySQL version: 5.5.16
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Akeeba Backup version: 3.6.5 (2012-09-14)

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Description of my issue:

My backup using command line scheduled with cron is being aborted after two minutes of execution.
max_execution_time is 300 and memory_limit is 256. The size of the backup files is over 2GB.

Any idea? The log message is:

[121001 00:31:58] The process was aborted on user's request

The log file is attached.

Thanks for your help.
Edited by user61719 on 2012-10-01 09:28 CDT

Monday, 01 October 2012 09:26 CDT

nicholas
Your host is imposing a maximum execution time restriction on CRON jobs. Please ask them to increase that limit, otherwise you will not be able to run a backup through a CRON job.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 01 October 2012 09:29 CDT

user61719
Is this a setting for cron, or does it follow the PHP max_execution_time?

Monday, 01 October 2012 09:30 CDT

nicholas
It has nothing to do with php.ini. This is something which has to do with CRON.

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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