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Hi Jim,

The Lazy Scheduling plugin was deprecated as of Akeeba Backup 3.2.5 and completely removed since Akeeba Backup 3.3.a1. The reason is that it was not performing consistently and fixing it on one host would render it unusable on the other, in a magnificent case of Catch-22. Therefore, I preferred to remove it altogether than to knowingly publish software which doesn't work on many hosts. As an alternative, you can set up a CRON job or use Remote CLI on a local machine or a different server to backup your site automatically.

I have a better (and MUCH more reliable) alternative for you, guys. We worked with Webcron.org, letting them know how our software works, they ironed out some issues they had which conflicted with our software and now their awesome web CRON service supports Akeeba Backup's front-end backup -what you see in the "Automating your backup" section of our documentation- without a hitch.

You can get about one thousand (not a typo, 1000) scheduled backup runs for just 1 Euro. With twice-daily backups -which are much more than enough for virtually any kind of site- this means that you will only spend 0.73 Euros per year to backup your site. That's dirt cheap, considering that you also get an email telling you if the backup worked and it's a real scheduled service which always works, not a half-baked solution which may or may not work. If anyone can't spend 0.73 EUR per year to secure his site, what more can I do? :D

As mentioned in the documentation,the native CRON scripts (backup.php and altbackup.php) are only available in Akeeba Backup Professional, the paid version of our software. Akeeba Backup Core, the free version you already have, includes the front-end backup feature which can be used in conjuction with your host's CRON feature to automate the backup. We have full instructions about that, just one chapter before the documentation on backup.php. You can find that documentation on-line, along with instructions to use the front-end backup feture with CRON, at https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/akeeba-backup-documentation/automating-your-backup.html#frontend-backup

Ah, Chaco, I forgot to reply to you. Sorry! If you follow all info on the link I pasted on the post above, you should haven problems.

Webcron.org is our plan B, in case your host does not support CRON jobs. This was supposed to be the only use case of the Lazy Scheduling plugin; it was supposed to be a Plan B in case your host did not supper CRON and you wanted to automate your backups. However, it never worked quite right and it was impossible to make it work, except on the hosts which did not need it to automate the backups. Catch-22. This is why I killed it and I'm now giving you the alternative with webcron.org :)