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#22805 cron job for tables

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 16 June 2015 11:01 CDT

Tuesday, 16 June 2015 10:23 CDT

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I am not having a problem. In fact everything is going quite well. I just want to check in before I make a mistake.

I wish to create a cron job that only backs up my data every few hours. I don't believe my issue will be creating the cron job, but I am not certain what command to execute with the cron job.

Do you have a preferred off site vendor?

Thanks

Sandor

Tuesday, 16 June 2015 11:01 CDT

nicholas
You are framing the question wrongly in your mind, that's why you didn't figure it out yet :)

What you need is a new backup profile with its Backup Type set to "Main Site Database (.sql file)". You can use the Exclude Database Tables if you want to only backup a few tables, i.e. exclude those you don't want to backup.

Now go to Component, Akeeba Backup and select the new backup profile from the drop-down list. Then click on Scheduling Information to get the command line you need to run it through CRON. Take this and create a new CRON job. That's it!

Regarding an off site storage vendor, I prefer Amazon S3. It's cheap, it's fast, it's reliable and there are so many third party tools supporting it which opens up a world of possibilities.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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