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12:23 pm
September 18, 2013
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I've successfully got my manual backup running. Now, I'd like to set up a CRON job to run once a day. How is this done? I've visited the Administration > Configuration cron-tab and entered a filename. I don't see any options to set a frequency for the CRON job to execute. Am I missing something here?
4:12 pm
September 26, 2010
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To setup a cronjob, you need access to a cron scheduler usually provided by your hosting company, try and check with them on this. Ovidiu
11:16 am
September 18, 2013
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Hey, I figured out how to set up a CRON job in WordPress. I have my backup settings all ready, saved in the CRON tab which I'm now able to call something like this:
wp_remote_get( 'http://mysite.com/lo.....' );
My options include splitting the archive at 1024MB and processing only 5 files at a time (this was the only way to get it to work). If I navigate to Actions > Generate Backup > Continue, then the job starts and will complete just fine making multiple TAR files. This will produce about 10 TAR files for me.
When I create a CRON job with these saved settings, it's only creating 1 TAR file which is almost 2GB. Am I missing something here? I navigated to the "myconfig.php" file and opened it up, and the "splitBackupSize" is indeed set to 1024.
So in short, the CRON is running, but it's not completing the whole backup. If I run it manually as mentioned above, a complete backup results. Any thoughts?
7:51 pm
September 26, 2010
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The split backup option only works in the manual mode throught the browser, the cron option is not yet implemented, so you would have to somehow exclude the larger folders to get the backup archive under 2Gb which is probably a file size limitation from your hosting.
Ovidiu
12:52 pm
September 18, 2013
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I'm not sure my server has a file size limit, but check this out. Would my php.ini file settings be causing this issue?:
wp-admin\php.ini
post_max_size = 2000M
11:34 am
September 18, 2013
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Hey Ovidiu,
Not sure if adding the split backup feature to the CRON section of XCloner is on your to-do list, but what would it take to get that done? Any donation possibly? I'd love to have that feature. It would make XCloner complete (in my opinion). I'd be willing to contribute! Please let me know as I need that functionality badly! Thanks.
~Quest~
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