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Cron jobs don't work
June 11, 2014
8:24 am
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Veronica
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Hi

I've been using XCloner for several years to generate backups and store them on Amazon S3, using wget to run cron jobs. This worked perfectly until I recently upgraded to the latest version of XCloner. I noted that cron jobs now require command-line php, so I SSHed to the server and tested it:

php /home/username/public_html/xcloner/cloner.cron.php myconfig.php

 

This worked, so I copied and pasted the command line to the cron job. When the cron job runs, I get the following message in the emailed cron log:

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Content-type: text/html

<h2>Please run this script from a terminal or through a cron scheduler interface</h2>

I am running it via cron. So I don't understand why I'm getting this message. Help!
June 12, 2014
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Ovidiu Liuta
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Please reinstall XCloner with the latest version from out site and see if it helps, i've just posted an update to it.

 

Ovidiu

June 18, 2014
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I have "Please run this script from a terminal or through a cron scheduler interface"

When i open the http adress over a Browser.

Can you help me ?

June 18, 2014
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XCloner cron access through web interface is not supported anymore due to security concerns. You can either use the cli command along with a proper cron scheduler or use the previous version of xcloner.

 

Ovidiu

June 18, 2014
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XCloner! Support said:

Please reinstall XCloner with the latest version from out site and see if it helps, i've just posted an update to it.

 

Ovidiu


Have you updated it within the last few days? I'm running v 3.5 which is the version available on the website with a date of February 24. I'm still having the same problem; the cron scripts work fine at the command line but not when run via cron.

June 19, 2014
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Yes, we did update it since then.

June 20, 2014
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I downloaded it from the website again and reinstalled it. I still have the exact same problem.

June 22, 2014
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If you can open a support ticket and send me the site access details, i'd be happy to look into the issue and fix the problem.

 

Ovidiu

June 23, 2014
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Hello,

**All of this is for Joomla! 1.5.x sites

I am also haing issues setting up my CRON job. I use ICDSoft to host my websites and it has a Cron scheduler on the control panel. I saved a cron config that I want to use to transfer my backups to Dropbox. When I hit execute cron I am met with the following.

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php /home/beyondthe/www/www/administrator/components/com_xcloner-backupandrestore/cloner.cron.php BackupTransfer.php

To run this script you need to create a custom config file inside XCloner Config, and call the script using php cli command like this:

php /home/beyondthe/www/www/administrator/components/com_xcloner-backupandrestore/cloner.cron.php mycustomconfig.php

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Could you please assit me in setting up a CRON job?

June 23, 2014
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The cron script needs to be run from the console, browser mode is not supported anymore!

 

Ovidiu

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