Problems with backup files | Wordpress Support | Forum Archive

1) I'm not using multiple cron configs, but I have saved a custom config.php file because there is no 'excute cron' link on the Cron tab unless a custom config.php file is created.

I cannot find any instructions on the purpose of a 'multiple cron config', how it is used or how to set up a multiple cron config.

I only have one cron control panel on my hosting account in which I can set up multiple "cron jobs", but there is no way to select which files to backup. So, if I want to run separate "cron jobs" at different times and intervals, do I set up multiple cron configs for that?
And do I setup multiple configs by creating config.php files with different names so I can assign a different type of backup (Full, Files only, or Database only) to the different cron config files, thereby creating different types of auto backups?

When setting up Cron tabs at my hosting account, I had to select the script to execute the cron.
I selected the path to the custom config.php file that I had created.
Is that correct? or should I have selected a different file?

You refer to the "Include backups directory in clone"; where is that located? I don't see any such option on the Cron tab.

When selecting Cron link in left sidebar of Admin tab, the following instructions display:

For Running Multiple Crons, you need to first create a custom configuration file in the XCloner Configuration -> Cron tab and then replace "cloner.cron.php" with "cloner.cron.php?config=myconfig.php", only use 'links' or 'lynx' options to run the cronjob
If you would like to use the php SSH command for running Multiple Crons, you will need to replace the "cloner.cron.php" with "cloner.cron.php myconfig.php" in the command line.
Notes: – if you php location is diferent than /usr/bin/php please use that one, format /$php_path/php

Replace "cloner.cron.php" where?

On the Cron tab is a text box followed by .php I replaced whatever was in that box with the name of my custom config.php file and after saving, there is nothing in that text box.
Do I have to re-enter the name of my custom config.php file every time I make changes to the Cron tab? (such as type of backup – Full, etc.)

For php SSH command, replace "cloner.cron.php" in command line where? In the custom config.php file?

What is "php location"? and how is that location determined? Are you referring to the location of custom config.php file?

2) I'm not using the "old package". I'm using the latest download of the WP version of the plugin from XCloner website and am still getting emails from 'Cronlog JoomlaCloner'.

3) I'll have to find a workaround, but it would easier when setting XCloner up in WP for other non-tech people, to be able to instruct them on how to download backups from the XCloner admin panel than to have to instruct them on setting up and using ftp.

4) I'm trying to confirm that backup is working correctly, and it looks suspicious that all the backups created using the 'execute cron' link on the Cron tab are all the same size (including a "Full" backup), and that size (1.45MB) is also what is being displayed as the size of "Completed Backup" for a Full backup executed manually, BEFORE clicking the "continue" link, which then creates the actual backup.
How can the backup be "completed" at 1.45MB before clicking the continue link, then show up in "View Backups" as 502MB?
That is VERY confusing! What is going on here? How can I trust that backup is being properly executed when there is such conflcting information?
An auto Full backup displays as 1.45MB, while a manual Full backup initially says "completed" at 1.45MB, then the actual file shows at 502MB?
How can an auto Full backup file contain all the information at 1.45MB that a manual Full backup file does at 502MB?

5) If pages are created with templates, will the database recreate pages with templates attached, or will templates have to be manually reattached to pages?

1) I have created 3 custom cron config files – for Files, Database, and Full backup to local server.
I selected files, database or 'full', named each config descriptively, and included my IP and email address for cron log.
I have scheduled a cron job for each backup on my hosting account linked to the appropriate config file, but nothing happens.
The time for the scheduled backup passes, and I receive no cron log by email, and no backup files ever show up in the server folder.

I'm using the following paths -
wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/cloner.cron.php?config=LGSfiles.php ,
cloner.cron.php?config=LGSfull.php , and
cloner.cron.php?config=LGSdatabase.php

2) Rather than deactivate and delete, then reinstall entire plugin, can I just replace the file or files in the WP version of XCloner download
that effect the cron log email sender – 'Cronlog JoomlaCloner'? If so, which file or files should I update?

3) Where do I look for the php.ini configuration file?
In the php.ini configuration file, how do you change or modify the code to increase the max_execution_time, and the memory_limit?
In Appendix of XCloner wiki, at section for "XCloner Limitations", https://docs.xcloner.com/#/
there are help links for memory_limit and max_execution_time http://ro.php.net/ma.....i.core.php
but the link connects to a php manual with no explanation on how to increase memory_limit and max_execution_time for XCloner.

1)

Cron backup works fine when I use path to cloner.cron.php only ( wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/cloner.cron.php )
and do not amend with any custom config file.
I get email from my host sever confirming completion of backup, as well as from Cronlog XCloner,
and a Full backup file appears in the backups folder, that is more or less consistent in size (259.18MB)
to the manual Full backup (257.56MB).

But when I revise cron by appending with a custom config file,
( ... cloner.cron.php?config=LGSdatabase.php )
I get an error message from my host -
Status: 404 Not Found
Content-type: text/html
No input file specified. - even though custom config file exists on the server.

Also, Execute Cron backup does not appear to be functioning properly from XCloner admin panel
for Files and Full backups as evidenced by the following 3 inconsistencies -
***A)***
File sizes are not consistent when added together and do not match manual backup file size -
Execute Cron Files backup + Database backup = 239.7MB;
which is 6.14MB smaller than Execute Cron Full backup, and 17.86MB smaller than Manual Full backup
Execute Cron Full backup is 11.72MB smaller than Manual Full backup
Execute Cron Database backup = 1.45MB (matches Manual Database backup)
Execute Cron Full backup = 245.84MB; Manual Full backup = 257.56MB
Execute Cron Files backup = 238.25MB
Manual Files backup = 257.73MB (which is bigger than Manual Full backup even though all tables were highlighted for deletion in backup, so backup should only consist of Files!)
***B)***
When executing separate crons for Files and Full backups, the backups never confirm completion in the browser window.
See copy of message below -
Using configs/XYZfiles.php as configuration file
Starting /home/content/xyz/wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/cloner.cron.php
Starting XCloner for site mydomain.com at 2010-11-28 08:13
Creating a files only backup
Generating Backup ...
(...hangs here and never shows completion message in browser)
***C)***
Even though no completion message is given, Files and Full backups show in "View Backups" as if completed.
After downloading Cron Files and Full backups various ways (by FTP or XCloner backups panel), both the Files and Full backups can be expanded but create an error on expanding.
The expanded Files backup is then missing the Scripts folder, and there is only 1 folder and 2 files that will expand from the Full backup.

So are you saying that the text on the Cron link of the Admin tab should read -
"cloner.cron.php myconfig.php" and not "cloner.cron.php?config=myconfig.php" ?

In previous post I noted  -

When selecting Cron link in left sidebar of Admin tab, the following instructions display:

For Running Multiple Crons, you need to first create a custom
configuration file in the XCloner Configuration -> Cron tab and then
replace "cloner.cron.php" with "cloner.cron.php?config=myconfig.php",
only use 'links' or 'lynx' options to run the cronjob

If you would like to use the php SSH command for running Multiple Crons,
you will need to replace the "cloner.cron.php" with "cloner.cron.php
myconfig.php" in the command line.

Notes: – if you php location is diferent than /usr/bin/php please use that one, format /$php_path/php

And you replied -
1. the cron script is always located here, for wordpress:
wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/cloner.cron.php , that is
the script you need to setup with your cron manager, use full server
path to it. Now, with multiple configs, you simply append them to the
cloner.cron.php as explained in the documentation

And later, I wrote -

I'm using the following paths -

wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/cloner.cron.php?config=LGSfiles.php ,

cloner.cron.php?config=LGSfull.php , and

cloner.cron.php?config=LGSdatabase.php