Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Monday, 01 July 2013 08:44 CDT

allright

Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: 2.5.11
PHP version: 5.3
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Akeeba Backup version: 3.7.10

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Description of my issue:
I am trying to have a cron job override the amazon key and secret key with the cron job:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/allrigh1/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php --profile=1 --override='engine.postproc.s3.accesskey=my access key' --override='engine.postproc.s3.secretkey=my secret key' (no line breaks)

The log file shows an error, so maybe that is it. If the cron does not override the configuration, it works as expected.

thanks
Neil

Monday, 01 July 2013 09:39 CDT

nicholas

In the output of the CRON script you should see a line reading:

Configuration variables overriden in the command line:

followed by all of the overrides that are present in the command line. You should see the two overrides you have defined and they should be taken into account.

That said, I have no idea what the -q option is supposed to do in the command line and I wouldn't put it there.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 01 July 2013 16:09 CDT

allright

Thanks Nicholas,

The -q is quite mode. I removed it and got some interesting messages:

Configuration variables overriden in the command line:
engine.postproc.s3.secretkey, 0

"Configuration variables overriden in the command line:
engine.postproc.s3.secretkey, 0"

does this mean the secretkey is 0? If so, something is not getting passed along.

additionally, at the end of the log it said that the accesskey was missing, even though I entered it in the cron string. Both the access and secret keys are in single quotes if that matters.

Monday, 01 July 2013 16:11 CDT

nicholas

Ah, nice catch! They should be in double (not single) quotes. Double quotes instruct the shell to pass its contents verbatim to the programme being called, which is a requirement for the equals operator to work. If you don't use doubles quotes the second equals operator and anything to its right is ignored, hence the zero value.

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!

Monday, 01 July 2013 17:12 CDT

allright

same problem with double quotes

Wednesday, 03 July 2013 01:33 CDT

nicholas

You are doing something wrong. Most likely you missed a double quote or two. This is the command line you have to use. Copy & paste it, changing the access and secret keys, making sure that you do not remove the double quotes after them.

/usr/bin/php /home/allrigh1/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php --profile=1 --override="engine.postproc.s3.accesskey=ACCESSKEY" --override="engine.postproc.s3.secretkey=SECRETKEY"

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, 03 July 2013 09:23 CDT

allright

I copied your script and put the accesskey and secretkey in, and got the same result, nothing sent to amazon.

The attached is the email I received showing what happened. The subject line is the cron job line with the amazon security keys (I have changed them).

I will ask on siteground as well, but do you have any ideas as to what is happening?

Thursday, 04 July 2013 16:24 CDT

nicholas

I have checked again and again; the overrides are really taken into account. First try removing the akeeba-backup.php file from the cli directory and install Akeeba Backup Professional twice, without uninstalling it.

If that doesn't help, try entering your S3 credentials in Akeeba Backup's configuration page and take a backup from the back-end. If that works and the transfer does start (even if it times out and the backup process halts with an error) try running the backup from the CRON job, without removing the S3 credentials. If that works, too, I am left with no explanation as to what is happening.

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!

Monday, 08 July 2013 10:36 CDT

allright

It seems to be working now after reinstalling.

Interestingly, the profile id recorded in the cron job summary is not the one that ran.

thanks

Monday, 08 July 2013 11:05 CDT

nicholas

I am pretty sure it runs the profile ID it reports.

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, 07 August 2013 18:00 CDT

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Edited by on 2013-08-07 18:00 CDT

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