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#16992 Cronjob backup to email NOT working

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 07 August 2013 01:50 CDT

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 21:53 CDT

user76239
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?)? All regarding cronjob backup
Joomla! version: Joomla 2.5.11
PHP version: 5.3.13
MySQL version: MySQl version is 5.1.53
Host: Dreamhosters.com
Akeeba Backup version: Akeeba Backup Professional 3.7.10 (2013-06-29)


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Description of my issue:

I have followed, to a T (I believe), the instruction on backing up my site via cronjob. I WAS getting....

"You are using PHP 5.3.13 (cli)

Starting a new backup with the following parameters:
Profile ID 2
Description "Command-line backup"

Current memory usage: 2.11 Mb

Unsetting time limit restrictions.

Site paths determined by this script:
JPATH_BASE : /home/snbrown/hevtest.dreamhosters.com
JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR : /home/snbrown/hevtest.dreamhosters.com/administrator

Last Tick : 2013-08-01 17:40:03 GMT-0700 (PDT)
Domain : init
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 7.13 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-08-01 17:40:04 GMT-0700 (PDT)
Domain : installer
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 7.21 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)"

What I'm not getting are the download files.

Wednesday, 07 August 2013 01:50 CDT

nicholas
According to your log file:
DEBUG |130801 17:41:00|Total size of backup archive (in bytes): 29793469

the backup archive is 28,41Mb.

According to the documentation of the send by email plugin in the big, red warning box:

You MUST set the Part size for split archives setting of the Archiver engine to a value between 1-10 Megabytes. If you choose a big value (or leave the default value of 0, which means that no split archives will be generated) you run the risks of the process timing out, a memory outage error to occur or, finally, your email servers not being able to cope with the attachment size, dropping the email.


28.41 is much bigger than the recommended 1-10 Mb. Please follow the documentation instructions.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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