Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Monday, 27 July 2015 01:41 CDT

cperrot

I am trying to find a useful script which allows me to check the backup after the backup has completed. Unfortunately all scripts seem to check the status locally.

Is there a script which checks on the remote server if the backup completed successfully and allows me to send an email if the backup failed?

This is what I use
wget --max-redirect=10000 "http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=check&key=YourSecretKey"

/usr/bin/wget "http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=check&key=YourSecretKey"

The problem is that view=check is returning Warning if any of backup failed I want to know only the latest backup.

Regards

Cedric

Monday, 27 July 2015 01:47 CDT

tampe125

Hello Cedric,

on the first run the Check feature will control all the backups, on later runs it will check only the new backups.

Davide Tampellini

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Monday, 27 July 2015 01:50 CDT

cperrot

Hello Davide

Thanks for the quick reply. Would you have also have a shell script which does the checking for me and sends an email in case of a failure?

Regards

Cedric

Monday, 27 July 2015 02:15 CDT

tampe125

Please take a look at the Scheduling information page, tab Check Backup Status. There are several commands that you can run.
For further information take a lookat the manual page.

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Tuesday, 28 July 2015 01:32 CDT

cperrot

Hello Davide

I read the manual and there is nothing there. I haven't found any return codes for the /usr/bin/wget "http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=check&key=YourSecretKey"
command nor have I found if there is a script which uses above command parses the return code and lets me do something based on unsuccessful completion of the command.

Regards

Cedric

Tuesday, 28 July 2015 01:40 CDT

tampe125

There are no returning codes: the script itself will send you an email if any failed backup is found.

Davide Tampellini

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Tuesday, 28 July 2015 01:47 CDT

cperrot

Do you mean the wget script? if yes do you have a sample?

Tuesday, 28 July 2015 02:03 CDT

tampe125

The sample is the one you can see in the manual page or the Scheduling information page:

wget --max-redirect=10000 "http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=check&key=SecretKey" -O - 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

It's very straight forward, there isn't any extra settings required.

Davide Tampellini

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Tuesday, 28 July 2015 02:05 CDT

cperrot

thanks for that, but where do I configure the email address to send an email to if the check has failures in it?

Tuesday, 28 July 2015 02:17 CDT

tampe125

Component Option, Frontend Backup tab, section Check for failed backups

Davide Tampellini

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Tuesday, 28 July 2015 02:20 CDT

cperrot

I wanted to send the email from the server which checks the webserver and not from the webserver. Not a problem I will build a script with remote.phar which seems to work quite nicely too.

Thanks for your help.

Tuesday, 28 July 2015 02:32 CDT

tampe125

You're welcome!

Davide Tampellini

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