Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Wednesday, 06 June 2018 10:13 CDT

pe7er

Hi, I experienced a weird error message when using the [Test SFTP connection] option.

In Akeeba Backup: Configuration > Post-processing engine > Upload to Remote SFTP (SSH) server using cURL

After adding some server credentials, I tried the [Test SFTP connection] button.
It results in the following error (see attached screenshot):

Could not connect to the remote SFTP server. The error message was:
Y

What does "Y" mean? :-)

Thursday, 07 June 2018 02:22 CDT

nicholas

The test buttons do not go through cURL. You should ignore that result until the next version where the SFTP test code will use cURL when you use a cURL-powered post-processing engine.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Thursday, 07 June 2018 07:07 CDT

pe7er

Ok, thanks!

btw: I got the same error message "Y" when I try "Upload to Remote SFTP (SSH) server" (so without 'using cURL')

Thursday, 07 June 2018 08:30 CDT

nicholas

Yes, in both cases the code follows the same path. It goes through the PHP SSH2 module. The response you get is the error message reported by that module. I assume something is broken when it's trying to connect to the remote server. If you use the cURL one do you get an error during backup or only when using the connection test?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Thursday, 07 June 2018 08:44 CDT

pe7er

Actually, I did not test it with a real backup.
It did not seem logical to me to try to backup after the connection test failed...

Friday, 08 June 2018 04:07 CDT

nicholas

Please do and let me know. The connection test in your case may be lying.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 11 June 2018 05:02 CDT

pe7er

In this case the connection test was not lying.
I tested it with doing a backup but got the following error at the end:

Your web server does not have the SSH2 PHP module, therefore can not connect to SFTP servers.

Failed to process file [..]

Post-processing interrupted -- no more files will be transferred

Monday, 11 June 2018 07:51 CDT

nicholas

Actually, this is a different bug which I ran into while fixing the bug you originally reported. The SFTP methods don't go through cURL. Hence the error.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 11 June 2018 08:15 CDT

pe7er

Ok, thanks!
I'll try again after next release...

Thursday, 12 July 2018 17:17 CDT

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