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#16461 Backup not transferred to FTP

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Latest post by phase2 on Monday, 24 June 2013 11:10 CDT

phase2
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.11
PHP version: 5.3.10
MySQL version: 5.5.29
Host: Loopia
Akeeba Backup version: 3.7.7

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Description of my issue:
Hi!

I've configured Akeeba to transmit the backup-files to a FTP-server after the backup is finished. This doesn't seem to work though. Some of the files are getting transferred and some are not. It looks like the process ends after about 1/3 of the site are transferred. I've tried fickle with the options, splitting the archive into smaller pieces, but I cant get rid of the error.

Can you help me?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
According to the log, your FTP server is closing the connection after about 20 seconds and then refuses to let us reconnect to it. I think that you have to review the setup of the FTP server.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

phase2
Hi!

I'm not in charge of the FTP-server, but I've transferred a lot of (large) files there before without a problem. Is there something I can do to go around this?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I don't know. Maybe... can you try a different FTP server? I can't tell you how to configure an FTP server.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

phase2
I've set up a brand new server using vsftpd. Can you give me some hints how to configure it so that my Akeeba-backups runs smoothly? I would really appreciate it!

phase2
Tried both vsftpd and proftpd, and both of them are giving the same error. The backup runs just fine, but as fast as the file should be transferred to the ftp-server it fails. Seems like it doesn't even start the transfer. The server logs shows that Akeeba is connecting and then closes the connection, no file is being transferred.

I've tried all kind of different configurations, small part sizes, active/passive-mode, etc. The server running the software is a VPS used only for that purpouse (nothing else installed). No firewall, nothing.

I've tried connecting with Transmit, Filezilla and Ubuntu cli ftp-command, but I cant reproduce the error on some other client.

What to do?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Akeeba Backup never closes the FTP connection while transferring. It is the FTP server which does. Hundreds of people have been using the FTP transfer, so it's extremely unlikely that it is a problem with Akeeba Backup. It is something in your FTP server setup. Unfortunately I cannot help with it and since it is a server you built, my normal advice of asking your host for support is kinda moot as you are your own host and you cannot troubleshoot your own server. Sorry, I cannot help you.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

phase2
Hi!

Don't get me wrong, I don't thing your software got the problem - the FTP server-configuration does. I just don't know what it is, and the logs give me nothing. You mentioned earlier that you could tell me how to configure the server - that would really help alot if you just could give me some hints. Otherwise, is it possible that I pay you to configure the server?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Okay, I am not an expert in FTP server configuration. I can manage my own web server, but FTP is unexplored territory. I have a generic idea which might help you. I've seen such an issue on FTP servers which close connections after a predefined amount of time unless you send a keep-alive command. This isn't possible with PHP (as far as I know). There's also the possibility of having a server which requires an active connection, not a passive one. In this case you can set the Passive Mode option to No in Akeeba Backup's configuration. But the exact way you configure either of these on the FTP server is beyond me, sorry :(

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

phase2
Hi!

I totally understand! I will try to do some configuration. Thanks alot for your help - i really appreciate it!

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