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#15783 Which Profile Will Cron Job backup?

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 17 April 2013 11:16 CDT

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 08:49 CDT

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Description of my issue:

I have two profiles setup - the existing default profile and another profile that I set to make backups to Amazon S3.
When I automate backups via Cron Job which profile will be backed up?

Thanks,

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 08:54 CDT

nicholas
Whichever you specify in your CRON job. All automation methods, no matter if you're using the front-end backup feature, or the akeeba-backup.php and akeeba-altbackup.php files allow you to choose whichever profile you want. If you don't specify a profile the default profile (the one with an ID of 1) will be used.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013 10:01 CDT

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I'm reading through all the tutorials, including backing up to Amazon S3 and creating an automated crob job but I can't find where you specify the profile to use. Can you please point this out.

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 10:39 CDT

nicholas
It will be easier for me to reply if I know one more thing. Which automation method are you going to use? For example, the akeeba-backup.php script?

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!

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 10:55 CDT

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Actually I got confused & got it all wrong using both the front-end backup feature and the cron job which I don't think is supposed to go together. Luckily I stumpled upon Brian Teeman's video which went through the backup process specifically the Scheduling Information > PHP CLI path.

Thanks for your help.

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 10:59 CDT

nicholas
I'm glad you got it working! I thought that my documentation is too deep and verbose for first time users, that's why I hired a training expert like Brian to do the training videos :)

Regarding your question now, if you want to change the backup profile used by the CRON job you can just tuck the parameter:
--profile=123
right after akeeba-backup.php in your CRON command line, where 123 is the numeric ID of the profile you want to use.

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!

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 11:09 CDT

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Hi Nicholas, thanks for the help. I'm glad you're thinking of your users and trying to simplify things :)

All the best.

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 11:16 CDT

nicholas
Thank you very much for your kind words!

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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