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9:15 am
September 30, 2010
First: sorry for my bad english - i hope, you can understand my questions.
We buyed Xcloner V2.1 in 2008 to backup each day the Joomla-Website of our school.
1. how to upgrade:
I downloaded V2.2 and now i want to know, how to upgrade (first uninstall V2.1?, prereferences take over to new version?, ...). I read the "readme.txt" => no answer. I looked here at the Forum => no Thread about this.
I think, it is good for all users, if you include next time the "how to upgrade" in the readme.txt.
2. what is the right upgrade:
28-02-2011 a email comes to me with the text "please upgrade".
I go to Xcloner.com and see two possibilities (V2.2 and V3.0.x). I think, V2.2 will be the correct Version for me because i found on other position "3.0.1 is beta ... only for tests". So i installed V2.2. Then i see, that V2.1 and V2.2 are on my joomla - so i uninstalled the V2.1. Then i went to V2.2-Konfiguration. There a great Icon "Upgrade Recommended" is showed
Why this? Is V2.2 not good and must i upgrade to V3.x?
3. use Xcloner without Cron-Job
The Web-Hoster of our school-homepage does not allow Cron-Jobs. So in 2008 the admin "Ovidiu" from joomlaplug.com helps us with a change to start the Backup each night from extern:
Original V2.1:
1: <?php
2: /**
3: * XCloner
Change:
1: <?php
2: $password= "mypassword";
3: /**
4: * XCloner
Original V2.1:
86: if(!in_array($curent_ip, $ip_list)){
87:
88: echo "Access Denied for ip $curent_ip!";
Change:
87: if($_REQUEST['pass'] != $password){
88: #if(!in_array($curent_ip, $ip_list)){
89:
90: echo "Access Denied for the provided password!";
Please tell me the changes, i must make after the upgrade to V2.2 (or 3.x?).
Hi Vkr! Ok, to answer your questions:
1. simply download XCloner 3.0 from our site, it's a stable release and install it on your site, you can uninstall the old version first
2. please download and use V3.0, the upgrade banner you see there it's a notification banner, you can disregard it if you already are using the latest version
3. regarding the cron patch i did, I am afraid i don't remember exactly what the issue was, how are automated backups running if your host does not allow cronjobs? Are you using JCron or some other cron manager?
Regards, Ovidiu
9:39 am
September 30, 2010
3: each night a computer in the school automaticly goes to internet "says 'backup' to the webserver" and one hour later he uses FTP to download the newest backup-file. You made this change, because the school-computer does not have an fix ip in internet and so the password is the security-feature.
Here your mail from 2008:
Von: Ovidiu – JoomlaPlug.com [[email protected]]
Gesendet: Freitag, 8. August 2008 12:55
Betreff: cloner.cron.php script updated
Anlagen: cloner.cron.php
Hi there! I have attached here the
administrator/components/com_xcloner/cloner.cron.php file, please overwrite the original one
You can access the cron script as http://…/cloner.cr.....ass=mypass
the default password being mypass, you can alter it by editing the first line of cloner.cron.php file
Let me know if you have anymore issues! Regards, Ovidiu
11:55 am
September 30, 2010
XCloner! Support said:
Did you replace the administrator/components/com_xcloner-backupandrestore/cloner.cron.php file with the modified one from the previous version you had working? Try and do that, it should help.
Ovidiu
yes - i replaced it, but it still works even without a password - i will mail you the Link an the file
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