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#17784 Cron reports: PHP Fatal error: /box.php on line 66

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 08 October 2013 06:48 CDT

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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: 2.5.14
PHP version: 5.3.3
MySQL version: 5.1
Host: VPS on Aruba (Italy)
Akeeba Backup version: 3.8.2

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Description of my issue:
Although everything seems to work fine and files are being correctly uploaded to Box, the Cron job reports an error at the end of the process:

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function delete() on a non-object in
....httpdocs/administrator/components/com_akeeba/akeeba/plugins/engines/proc/box.php on line 66

Do I need to worry about it?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
The Box integration is going to be removed in the next version of Akeeba Backup. Box notified us that they are changing their API. Their new API is only compatible with hosted services using HTTPS, making it unsuitable for use with Akeeba Backup running on different sites, most of them not even using HTTPS. As a result we urge all our users to seek an alternative backup storage option, such as Dropbox or Amazon S3, and we regret that we cannot provide any bug fixes for code which is scheduled for immediate removal.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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