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#17343 Couldn't write to archive file

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 05 September 2013 04:25 CDT

user9417
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: Joomla 2.5.14
PHP version: 5.3.21
MySQL version: 5.1
Host: Site 5
Akeeba Backup version: Akeeba 3.7.10

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Description of my issue: Back up failed Couldn't write to the archive file; check the output directory permissions and make sure you have enough disk space available.[len=56217 / 62973]

Have approximately 15 sites backing up to Amazon S3 and only this one is experiencing this issue. Tried cleaning up archive and even creating a new bin, problem persists.

This is one of the largest sites I have - May need to increase S3 space How?

Just FYI - when clicking on the trouble shooter link on my back up page, I was taken here https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/abbackup.html?utm_source=akeeba_backup&utm_campaign=backuperrorbutton

Which seems out of date?

I did try the instructions here https://www.akeebabackup.com/home/news/55-general/1502-troubleshooting-instructions-for-feb-2013-releases.html which helped with my first issue with installing the upgrade but not with this one.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
The troubleshooting page (https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/abbackup.html?utm_source=akeeba_backup&utm_campaign=backuperrorbutton) is not outdated. There are only two steps that refer to features of Akeeba Backup 3.4.3 and earlier but the rest is still very relevant. Please follow the steps there, especially step 4. Please look at the error message you got:

Description of my issue: Back up failed Couldn't write to the archive file; check the output directory permissions and make sure you have enough disk space available.[len=56217 / 62973]

And then read step 4 in the troubleshooting instructions. You'll see the correlation.

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!

user9417
I will check with the server people about the free space - You do mean free space on our server and not the Amazon S3? Correct? Sorry - this is above my pay grade but I am the only one working on this!

P.S. the line below from the trouble shooting instructions is why I thought these instructions were out of date - we are running PHP 5.3 which other parts of your doc says are required. Maybe you meant that PHP 5.3 and higher up to PHP 6 were OK and only PHP 5.2 was buggy but I find the phrasing confusing.

You need PHP version 5.1.6 or higher. PHP versions 5.2.4 up to and including 5.2.6 are not supported; they are buggy and won't work properly. Akeeba Backup has not been tested with PHP 6, as it's not stable yet.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Yes, I mean free space on the server. Sorry, I thought it was obvious but reading the error message and your ticket again I can see why you were confused :) Akeeba Backup needs to write the backup archive to your server before it can upload it to Amazon S3.

Regarding the PHP version: Akeeba Backup requires PHP 5.3 or later. This means that any current version of PHP 5.3 or 5.4 will do. There is a new version, PHP 5.5, but Joomla! doesn't fully support it just yet so we can't pretend to support it either. PHP 6 was never released. It was a failed alpha release from many years ago.

Regarding the note about 5.1.6 and 5.2, they were relevant to older versions of Akeeba Backup. I think I need to change the phrasing there, it is indeed quite confusing.

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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