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#21651 Backup location

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Latest post by dlb on Monday, 08 December 2014 13:36 CST

Monday, 08 December 2014 10:00 CST

user84673
Hi,
I'm trying to use cron jobs to automate my backups, but it not seems to be working. Can you tel me where is the default location for the backup if i'm using following script?
php /home/olaaventura/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php.

I checked the default place where manual backup does, but it not there..

Monday, 08 December 2014 10:13 CST

dlb
The backup location would be the same as your manual backups (assuming you are using the same profile). This backup did not progress far enough to produce any backup archive.

This type of backup requires the PHP-CLI binary, not the normal web version of PHP (probably PHP-FCGI). Your host can tell you the path and name of that binary. You need to call that in place of the "php" in your command line.


Dale L. Brackin
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Monday, 08 December 2014 10:55 CST

user84673
I spoke with hosting support, they said no need to point to whole path for php and also executed that script manually and it start running without issues. But when i look at the backup folder /home/olaaventura/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup, is nothing there. Also, log file do not indicate any process.

Monday, 08 December 2014 13:29 CST

dlb
I spoke with Nicholas about this and he gave me some help.
  1. The backup log you posted is from a back end backup, not a command line backup. That is important because I assumed since you had a partial log that something was happening.
  2. He thinks the problem is the path to PHP. It is included in the PATH statement for your host's support folk, but it is not included in your PATH. You need the path to PHP in the command line, something like /usr/bin/php.


Dale L. Brackin
Support Specialist


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Monday, 08 December 2014 13:33 CST

user84673
Going to try that with full path /usr/bin/php /home/olaaventura/public_html/cli/akeeba-backup.php

Monday, 08 December 2014 13:36 CST

dlb
/usr/bin/php is the path for my server. One of Linux's great drawbacks is that different flavors put things in different places.


Dale L. Brackin
Support Specialist


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