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I have recently purchased JoomlaCloner and I think it is a great component. I have had some troubles with FTP and using crontab. Ovidiu has been very helpful, and responsive to email. I am still having some issues with getting the crontab job to use remote FTP.

What I have learned so far (which may help others!)
The instructions in the component on how to set up a crontab job assume that PHP is compiled as a cgi. After some web searching, I discovered that the server I use does not have PHP configured as a cgi, but as an Apache module. (I admit this doesn't mean a whole lot to me, but it was critical in getting crontab to work.) I was able to figure this out by looking at the phpinfo() page for my server.

In order to have crontab execute a php page when compiled this way, you need to use lynx. So I had to set up my crontab job like this:
* * * * * /path/to/lynx -dump http://myjoomlasite......r.cron.php

This seems to work: The cron job executes as it should, and a backup is created in the indicated backup directory. However, I have the cron configuration setup to use remote FTP--and the file is not transferred to the remote FTP site. I am able to use the "move" function with the admin component to move it to the remote FTP site--but it won't work using cron.

Any ideas on how to get this to work? If I load the cloner.cron.php page in my browser (as a test) should it make the backup and send it by FTP? Because I have tried that, and again it will only make the backup but it doesn't seem to connect to the remote FTP server.

Thanks for any advice.
Bob