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A full site backup is something which takes a heck of a lot of time, CPU and RAM to perform. It can't happen in a single page load. That's why you need Akeeba Backup, because it splits the process into smaller steps suitable for execution on the server. Asking for an automatic backup without CRON means that the backup would have to be taken as a visitor tries to load a page on your site. That would lead to a blank page, or -in the best, unrealistic, case scenario- your visitor would have to wait for several minutes or hours before the page loads. Come on, get real. There is a reason why there are CRON jobs. Long running operations, like backups, are one of them.



Before you argue that it is possible, please read our documentation regarding the known issues of the Lazy Scheduling plugin. That plugin was designed to solve that problem. Guess what? It turns out that the limitations on the servers where you can't use CRON are so big that even this solution can't work reliably. If you can't get a CRON job working on your server, try webcron.org. It rocks.