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#21747 Automated backups creating lots of small files

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Latest post by on Friday, 23 January 2015 17:20 CST

jakeburns
Description of my issue: I have automated backups of around 100 sites set up. I'm using the front-end backup for most of them because I don't have access to the host information for a lot of the sites. Is there a way to suppress output? If I'm using the CLI version I can add --quiet, but there doesn't appear to be a similar version.

Even when I redirect output to /dev/null in the cron I still end up with 100 very small index.php files on my server (see attached screenshot).

Is the only way to not have those files generated is to use the CLI version with --quiet or is there some other trick I just missed in the documentation? An example of the cron job I've set up is below:

wget --max-redirect=10000 "http://www.domain.com/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=backup&key=[redacted]" > /dev/null 2>&1

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello Jake,

you're almost there.
The correct syntax (as reported inside Scheduling information page) is the following:
wget --max-redirect=10000 "http://www.domain.com/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=backup&key=foobar" -O - 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null 
Please try that, it should fix your issue.

Davide Tampellini

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jakeburns
Thanks, I'll give that a shot! Can you show me where that is in the documentation? I can't seem to find it, which makes me think I either have an older version or am not looking in the right place.

dlb
Davide was referring to the Scheduling Information button on the Control Panel in Akeeba Backup.


Dale L. Brackin
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