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Description of my issue:

Hi Nikko!

"cPanel cron job after Lazy Backup removal" was intended topic name but I hit a wrong key and then couldn't find an edit button to correct the error.

Here is the problem: Rochenhost won't give much help with their cPanel cron setup and says "ask Akeeba." The suggested setup in the Akeeba "howto" does not work. Here is what is suggested there:

/usr/bin/php5-cli /home/myusername/public_html
/administrator/components/com_akeeba/altbackup.php-profile=YourProfileID

Rochen says use this instead:
/usr/bin/php /home/myusername/public_html
/administrator/components/com_akeeba/altbackup.php-profile=YourProfileID

But that doesn't work, either. I am using the free backup which doesn't have an altbackup.php file. So I copied the backup.php from /controllers/ and put it in mod_akeeba and renamed it altbackup.php but that didn't help. Nor did using the file path to the original backup.php

Perhaps this only works with the profesional version?

After hours of trying, any suggestions appreciated.

Best,


fjw

Hi Nikko!

When I tried:
/usr/bin/php5-cli /home/myusername/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup.php -profile=1

I got this message:

Could not open input file: /home/myusername/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup.php

I asked and was told by Rochen:

That doesn't appear to be a valid path to php, you'll want to re-check your Akeeba documentation. Typically you'd want to use the interpreter at "/usr/local/bin/php", thank you.

But when I tried:

/usr/local/bin/php /home/myusername/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup.php -profile=1

I got "restricted access."

The backup log gives this message:

DEBUG |110813 05:01:01|Kettenrad :: Attempting to load from database (backend)
DEBUG |110813 05:01:01| -- Stored Akeeba Factory (backend) not found - hard reset

I won't attempt to interpret all this. I would just be guessing!

And I also note that the backup.php file appears to be in the subfolder "controllers" and not in the Akeeba root folder, if that makes any difference. I copied it to root but that made no difference, either.

Any suggestions appreciated.

fjw