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Wednesday, 12 December 2012 05:19 CST

chrisber

Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: 2.5.8
PHP version: 5.3.3
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: Local server (Linux Open Suse)
Akeeba Backup version: Pro 3.6.10

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Description of my issue:

Hi,

I have 2 sites : one (www.) on a distant server (Bluehost) and one on a local server (on Linux Open Suse) only for an intranet.

For Bluehost : fine, they propose a cron Task manager.

But for the Local Server : how (and wher) can I do to set a Native Cron automated Backup (for example, every 7 days), as I read also that you recommend to NOT use the Lazy Scheduling plugin ?

Thanks for your help

Chris

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 05:48 CST

nicholas

Hello Chris,

I assume that your local server is up 24/7 and you have SSH or physical termina access to it. It should be a matter of editing your crontab. I would suggest doing a

man crontab

from the command line to see how it works. You will of course need to know what's the path to your PHP CLI binary, e.g.

which php

and make sure it is indeed PHP CLI:

php -v | grep cli

should return something like:

PHP 5.3.14 (cli) (built: Jul 2 2012 08:56:54)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Wednesday, 12 December 2012 07:06 CST

chrisber

Thanks Nicholas,

First, I have to admit that I am a total amator concerning php.

That means, I can repeat (try to at least) thing but can't really understand them whe it come to php or even dos command.

I type the instruction "cron tab" in a Konsole window directly on the Linux server: it says in return => "cron: can't lock /var/run/cron.pid, otherpid may be 3029: Ressource temporarily unavailable"

?

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 07:13 CST

nicholas

So, your question is actually about how to manage a Linux server. I can't offer support on that as it's been a very long time since I last used Suse (the last time was around 2003-2004). Since you're using KDE you may want to take a look at KCron. According to this documentation page: http://userbase.kde.org/KCron you can go to System Settings -> System Administration section -> Task Scheduler. The command line you have to use is shown in Akeeba Backup, Scheduling Information. That's as far as I can help you with this.

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!

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 08:14 CST

chrisber

Ok

I found how to and installed Kcron on the server

I think all I need now is some help to define the path to php. I think I should put "usr/local/bin/php" but is it correct ?

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 08:27 CST

chrisber

I set a task for this night 
will see

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 09:14 CST

nicholas

usr/local/bin/php should be /usr/local/bin/php. The leading slash is very important.

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!

Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:12 CST

chrisber

Hi Nicholas

What's great is that the cron task worked fine on my local server.

Unfortunately, it is on the Bluehost server that it didn't. I thgink it is probably due to the path to the php CLI that is not good.

Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:18 CST

chrisber

I send a mail to Bluehiost to verify the path.

But in the meantime, I set like in your example (considering CPanel version is 11.32.5) : /usr/bin/php5-cli

Do you think maybe I should just try : /usr/bin/php

Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:23 CST

nicholas

The most common paths I've seen are:

/usr/bin/php5-cli
/usr/local/bin/php5-cli
/usr/bin/php-cli
/usr/local/bin/php-cli
/usr/bin/php
/usr/local/bin/php
/usr/bin/php5
/usr/local/bin/php5

The thing is that the name varies wildly and some of those are actually the PHP5 CGI (not CLI) which won't work properly or at all. The only way to know for sure is asking your host.

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!

Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:32 CST

chrisber

I found this path in some examples they give in their help section : /ramdisk/bin/php5

I will try it in the meantime of their answer.

Just one last question : do I need to specify a particular php.ini file with the flag -c ?

Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:55 CST

nicholas

Just one last question : do I need to specify a particular php.ini file with the flag -c ?

Normally not, unless your host told you to do otherwise.

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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