I'm using a cron job to generate every month a backup with akeeba on a new website. And it is not working, no error, no backup
Can you help me please
thanks
#40257 cron
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Environment Information
Joomla! version
5.0.2
PHP version
8.1.27
Akeeba Backup version
9.8.5
Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 07 February 2024 00:15 CST
Tuesday, 06 February 2024 09:29 CST
caroline.b
Tuesday, 06 February 2024 09:57 CST
caroline.b
My backups are working, i'm using a different timezone then the host. So i changed the time (1 hour earlier) and it is working!!!!
Wednesday, 07 February 2024 00:15 CST
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I'm glad you resolved it! Since it's a public ticket, I'll put a bit of a public service announcement here for anyone else reading this.
This is indeed the number one problem in setting up a CRON job. The hosting control panel almost never says it, but the CRON jobs are always expressed in the timezone of your server. The trick is figuring out what that is. It's possible to have a host headquartered in one country, and its servers in another, or several other countries. If unsure, ask your host.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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