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#19427 Command line backup

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Latest post by tampe125 on Friday, 21 March 2014 03:35 CDT

user82443
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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:

***********************************start of command-line output
Copyright (C) 2010-2014 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 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.9 (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
*******************************************************end of command-line output

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?

dlb
Anne,

Can you please post your backup log again? This zip file is empty. Thanks.


Dale L. Brackin
Support Specialist


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user82443
Attempting to attach log file as a text file as it doesn't seem to allow the tar.gz file.

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello Anne,

sorry for the delay. Looking at the log, it's not the one that is related to your issue.
Can you please download and attach the log of the failed CLI backup?

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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