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Description of my issue:
Dear Sirs,
Backups performed manually through the site backend are executing without problem, and I can
restore from the backup file without problem. My cpanel offers cron jobs, and I have setup a cron
process to run the same profile and get strange results. First, I receive 2 rather than 1 email
indicating that the cron ran. 1 email shows an error, the other doesn't. The manual backup is
35mb. The cron backup is 70mb and is not functional (ie I get an error when attempting to
reconstruct the site from it. )
Here are the 2 emails:

Cron <language@s02> /usr/local/bin/php /home/language/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php --profile=1
Inbox
x

Cron Daemon <[email protected]>
11:01 PM (10 hours ago)

to me
Akeeba Backup CLI 3.8.2 (2013-09-30)
Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Akeeba Backup is Free Software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 3 or, at your option, any later version.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY as per sections 15 & 16 of the
license. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html for details.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You are using PHP 5.3.20 (cli)

Starting a new backup with the following parameters:
Profile ID 1
Description "Command-line backup"

Current memory usage: 2.15 Mb

Unsetting time limit restrictions.

Site paths determined by this script:
JPATH_BASE : /home/language/public_html
JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR : /home/language/public_html/administrator

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:00:05 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : init
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 7.41 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:00:05 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : installer
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 7.49 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:00:27 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : PackDB
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 9.97 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:00:40 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : PackDB
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 9.91 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:00:46 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : Packing
Step : /home/language/public_html/components/com_kowhosthere/assets/images/countries
Substep :
Memory used : 10.22 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:01:05 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : Packing
Step : -
Substep :
Memory used : 10.22 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

An error has occurred:
Could not rename last JPA part to .JPA extension.

Peak memory usage: 12.49 Mb

Cron Daemon <[email protected]>
11:01 PM (10 hours ago)

to me

Memory used : 10.01 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:00:40 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : PackDB
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 9.91 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:00:46 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : Packing
Step : /home/language/public_html/components/com_kowhosthere/assets/images/countries
Substep :
Memory used : 10.22 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:01:05 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : Packing
Step : -
Substep :
Memory used : 10.22 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:01:05 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : finale
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 10.58 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:01:05 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : finale
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 10.58 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Last Tick : 2013-11-15 00:01:05 GMT-0600 (CST)
Domain : finale
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 10.58 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)

Backup job finished successfully after approximately 1 minute


Thanks so much for your kind assistance with this great product that has already been a lifesaver several times,
kind regards,
Brian

Hi Nick,
Thanks for your attention. There is actually some kind of problem though. When I attempt to restore the site from the backup that is created, I get an error (see attached). In addition, in my email, the log shows that somehow the process is running twice (only one cron though). One run shows no error, the other shows the "Could not rename last JPA part to .JPA extension" error. As things stand I must still perform manual backups, as the automated ones clearly aren't working. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

kind regards,
Brian