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Description of my issue:

Hi Nickolas,

I have got a question regarding automatic akeeba backups.

I installed jumi extension on my joomla site.(Ifyou dont know this extension, it lets you include, scripts in this particular case- php codes anywhere on your site)

Created a new entry in the components/jumi called backup and pasted this code

<?php define('SITEURL', 'http://www.example.com'); // Base URL of your site
define('SECRETKEY', 'MySecretKey'); // Your secret key
define('PROFILE',1); // The profile's ID

// ====================== DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE ======================
$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,
SITEURL.'/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=backup&key='.
SECRETKEY.'&profile='.PROFILE);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,10000); # Fix by Nicholas
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
if (empty($buffer))
    echo "Sorry, the backup didn't work.";
else
    echo $buffer;
?>

Changed the site url and secret key....

Created a jumi module and linked to the "backup" entry created inside jumi previously

Created a new article
Included the following inside this article to load the jumi module(which includes the code mentioned above)
{loadposition backup}

Created a new menu item
Linked to the previous article
Set the permission to super user

Now I can see this menu item when I log into frontend. When I click on it, it lets me backup the site without going to the backend...Thats what I was planning or hoping to do until a few weeks back.

At the moment the site backs up itself...Is this normal? It was not backing up before and now all of a sudden the site decided to backup automatically :)

Is this the right and secure way to do automatic backup?

Or should I try something else?

Thank you.