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BACKUP from CRON [message #159596]

Fri, 12 June 2009 14:44

art

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I have FUDforum 2.8.0 installed and running and I love it.

However, I am having trouble setting up a cron job to automatically backup every night.

I can do a backup of the system from the admin control panel using admdump.php. I have made a copy of this called backup.php in the adm directory and uncommented the lines required to allow CLI operation, as described elsewhere. Still no joy.

There is no error log produced, and no email of status. I am running in a shared hosting environment. The command I have in the crontab is this:

cd /hsphere/local/home/tesla/forum/adm && php ./backup.php /hsphere/local/home/tesla/forum/tmp/FUDforum.fud.gz 1

Any ideas why this doesn't work?

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Re: BACKUP from CRON [message #159598 is a reply to message #159596]

Fri, 12 June 2009 15:17

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You need to use full paths in the crontab - i.e. /usr/local/bĭn/php instead of php.

PS: I normally include a MAILTO="mymail(at)domain(dot)com" on the first line of the crontab to get the output E-mailed to me.

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Re: BACKUP from CRON [message #159664 is a reply to message #159598]

Sun, 14 June 2009 14:42

art

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I added the full path to the php executable and the script still doesn't run. Any other ideas?

Oddly enough, it doesn't send any errors.

Here's the script now:

cd /hsphere/local/home/tesla/forum/adm && /usr/local/bin/php ./backup.php /hsphere/local/home/tesla/forum/tmp/FUDforum.fud.gz 1

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Re: BACKUP from CRON [message #159665 is a reply to message #159664]

Sun, 14 June 2009 18:01

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Does it work if you run it from command line?

Check if crond is running on your server:

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$ pgrep -l cron
4728 crond

Check crond's log files in /var/log/cron/ (or similar directory).

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Re: BACKUP from CRON [message #159677 is a reply to message #159665]

Tue, 16 June 2009 02:36

art

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I found the problem after talking with my service provider.

They have a weird way of running php programs from cron. Rather than specifying the path to the php executable, they have you use this intermediate script:

/hsphere/shared/php5/bin/php-cgi

So my command in crontab is this:

cd /hsphere/local/home/tesla/forum/adm;
/hsphere/shared/php5/bin/php-cgi ./backup.php /hsphere/local/home/tesla/forum/tmp/FUDforum.fud.gz 1

Thanks for help, everyone!

[Updated on: Tue, 16 June 2009 02:37]

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