Description of my issue:
In preparing the way for automatic daily backup, I'm testing the command-line backup with the command:
user@localhost:~$ /usr/bin/php /var/www/siteroot/cli/akeeba-backup.php
with the following result:
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Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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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.
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You are using PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.9 (cli)
Starting a new backup with the following parameters:
Profile ID 1
Description "Command-line backup"
Current memory usage: 1.48 Mb
Unsetting time limit restrictions.
Site paths determined by this script:
JPATH_BASE : /var/www/siteroot
JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR : /var/www/siteroot/administrator
Last Tick : 2014-03-06 15:32:06 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Domain : init
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 5.16 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)
An error has occurred:
Could not open /var/www/siteroot/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup/site-192.168.0.55-20140306-153205.j01 for writing. Check permissions and open_basedir restrictions.
Peak memory usage: 5.25 Mb
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Directory permissions are all "writeable" and there are no open_basedir restrictions specified in php.ini. Can you diagnose this error and advise solution please?