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I was unable to locate a log file, presumably because the backup could not complete. The only information I have is via an email from the cron job. See below:

Description of my issue:
Backup via a cron job does not work. The following message is sent from the Cron Daemon after a scheduled cron job:

Akeeba Backup Alternate CRON Helper Script version 5.0.4 (2016-05-23)
Copyright (c) 2006-2016 Akeeba Ltd / 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsetting time limit restrictions.

Site paths determined by this script:
JPATH_BASE : /home/rtaarchitects/public_html
JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR : /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/administrator

********** ERROR! **********

Could not connect to MySQL.

Technical information:

Code: 0
File: /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/joomla/database/driver/mysqli.php
Line: 169

Stack Trace:

#0 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/joomla/database/driver/mysqli.php(227): JDatabaseDriverMysqli->connect()
#1 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/joomla/database/driver.php(1488): JDatabaseDriverMysqli->escape('component')
#2 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/joomla/database/driver.php(407): JDatabaseDriver->quote('component', true)
#3 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/fof30/Params/Params.php(54): JDatabaseDriver->__call('q', Array)
#4 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/fof30/Params/Params.php(54): JDatabaseDriverMysqli->q('component')
#5 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/fof30/Params/Params.php(41): FOF30\Params\Params->reload()
#6 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/fof30/Container/Container.php(483): FOF30\Params\Params->__construct(Object(FOF30\Container\Container))
#7 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/fof30/Pimple/Container.php(112): FOF30\Container\Container->FOF30\Container\{closure}(Object(FOF30\Container\Container))
#8 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/libraries/fof30/Container/ContainerBase.php(27): FOF30\Pimple\Container->offsetGet('params')
#9 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/BackupPlatform/Joomla3x/Platform.php(706): FOF30\Container\ContainerBase->__get('params')
#10 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/BackupEngine/Platform.php(275): Akeeba\Engine\Platform\Joomla3x->get_platform_configuration_option('siteurl', '')
#11 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/cli/akeeba-altbackup.php(140): Akeeba\Engine\Platform->__call('get_platform_co...', Array)
#12 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/cli/akeeba-altbackup.php(140): Akeeba\Engine\Platform->get_platform_configuration_option('siteurl', '')
#13 /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/cli/akeeba-altbackup.php(503): AkeebaBackupCLI->execute()
#14 {main}

The cron job command is this:
/usr/local/bin/php /home/rtaarchitects/public_html/cli/akeeba-altbackup.php

Other information that may be helpful:

• Cron jobs on the same host are working.

• Running a backup manually from Joomla admin works properly.

• I realize that this site is not on the latest version of Joomla. It has not be upgraded to 3.5.1 intentionally because of a bug that broke front-end editing, which is used all the time on the site (https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/9615)

The 5.2.x series was not one of our best. I think that is a known issue with 5.0 but the versions are no longer available for me to check. If you can run 5.0, you should be able to upgrade to the current 5.1.2 where this bug has been fixed.

ok, thank you Dale. I will give that a try.

My apologies, I made an error in the comment above. It should say:

The 5.0.x series was not one of our best.

There is no 5.2 version yet.

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