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1:06 pm
Hello.
I've already been fighting for hours to understand how to create cron tasks to make backups with Xcloner (and Akeeba).
I'm on a shared hosting (1and1)
I've seen the code to put in a "crontab" :
wget -q http://website/path_.....r.cron.php
or :
/usr/bin/php /homepages/25/dxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/mywebsite/administrator/components/com_xcloner-backupandrestore/cloner.cron.php
1 – I don't know which of these 2 lines I must use.
2 - What/where is this "crontab" file ? I can connect to my hosting by SSH with Filezilla, but I don't find any cron file or directory, and I don't know how to use Putty (hundreds of parameters to select).
5:07 pm
September 26, 2010
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Any of those 2 command lines should work, i do suggest however the second one.
As for crontab, if you are logged into ssh, simply type and run
crontab -e
Regards, Ovidiu
8:50 pm
"2 - What/where is this "crontab" file ? I can connect to my hosting by
SSH with Filezilla, but I don't find any cron file or directory, and I
don't know how to use Putty (hundreds of parameters to select)"
9:20 pm
September 26, 2010
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It would be best in this case to simply ask your hosting support for instructions on how to use their cron scheduler, they might have something more visual available!
Regards, Ovidiu
9:02 am
Yes, they provide instructions ... incomprehensible for me :
http://faq.1and1.com.....obs/3.html
I think I have to give up my searches for a clear procedure to create cronjobs, and use an external service .
With other hosters using Cpanel, there is a visual interface that I could use, but changing hoster only for cronjobs is not serious.
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