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#9136 Multiple backup when using cron

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 06 November 2011 03:03 CST

BigStef
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes : www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/abautomation.html
Have I searched the forum before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 1.5.24
PHP version: 5.2.6
MySQL version: 5.0.77
Host: Digital Pacific (Sydney)
Akeeba Backup version: 3.3.a3

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Description of my issue:
I'm using a cron job (on my account on webcron.org) to perform an automatic backup from my website to my DropBox account.

In my Cronjob, I wrote this URL :
http://www.xxx.xx/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=backup&key=mypassword&profile=1

I have read the article you have post on twitter on how to create thisn and when I test it manual, it is working great. When I test the cronjob manually from my webcron account, it is also working great.

When I let the cronjob do his automatic schedule, it works so GREAT that I recieve 60 bakcups during one hours. My time out on the cronjob is on "180 secondes" as the during is 38 secondes mentionned on my admin. ANyway 180 saceondes is only 3 minutes in fact. Here the backup restart during 1 hour every minute (so 60 backups)...

Any help to parameter this ? Thks by advance...

PS : This is the last things I'm trying to make working. Anyway, you must know that your tool save my time (and sometime my "pro life" :-) every day !!! Thanks for that...

Stephan Herby PAO Production New Caledonia - Canada - France

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
LoL!! I think you just made a simple mistake (don't worry, you are neither the first nor the last person to do that - yours truly has done it, too).

Go to webcron.org and edit the CRON job. In the execution time zone, the last column is the minute setting. Set it to 0; you now have it set to the default value, "Every minute", so it will run every single minute or 60 times per hour. Then in the second to last column, the Hour column, pick one single hour of the day, NOT the default "Every hour". Save and you're done ;)

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!

BigStef
So simple...
I'm always really proud to find that kind of noob question. Another one for your own collection ... :-)
Thanks for answering, this is of course working great...

Stephan Herby PAO Production New Caledonia - Canada - France

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
No worries! Nobody was born knowing how to set up a CRON job. Practice makes perfect. Meanwhile, I am here to help :)

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!

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