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#36350 Backup fails with no alert

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 02 February 2022 20:17 CST

blacknell

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Description of my issue:

Backups are completing as success but recently they post processing has not been completing. I have an S3 upload configured and working fine. Recently, though our provider had a problem on their end so the upload has not been occurring since beginning of December.

I only just noticed it.

However, I am running the cron job to check failed backups and nothing is being reported.

/usr/bin/php /var/www/www.nomadsailing.co.uk/cli/akeeba-check-failed.php --profile=1
Akeeba Backup Check failed backups CLI 8.0.12 (2021-10-26)
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Public License version 3 or, at your option, any later version.
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license. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html for details.
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You are using PHP 7.4.25 (cli)

Checking for failed backups
No need to run: no failed backups or notifications were already sent.

It's worth pointing out that the button to finish the post process is there and different to when it succeeded/

WARNING |20220103 03:00:34|Akeeba\Engine\Postproc\Connector\S3v4\Connector::startMultipart(): [500] InvalidAccessKeyId:The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records. \n \n Debug info: \n SimpleXMLElement Object \n ( \n [Code] => InvalidAccessKeyId \n [Message] => The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records. \n [AWSAccessKeyId] => 009fc991b2c27552ae9d \n [RequestId] => e5625c88-ffe5-1fff-b80f-0cc47ad3f148 \n [HostId] => bde0729579de457cb50d41e91a04137b \n ) \n
DEBUG |20220103 03:00:34|[Akeeba\Engine\Postproc\Connector\S3v4\Exception\CannotPutFile] <root>administrator/components/com_akeeba/BackupEngine/Postproc/Connector/S3v4/Connector.php(693) – #0 ‹Akeeba\Engine\Postproc\Connector\S3v4\Connector::startMultipart(): [500] InvalidAccessKeyId:The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records. \n \n Debug info: \n SimpleXMLElement Object \n ( \n [Code] => InvalidAccessKeyId \n [Message] => The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records. \n [AWSAccessKeyId] => 009fc991b2c27552ae9d \n [RequestId] => e5625c88-ffe5-1fff-b80f-0cc47ad3f148 \n [HostId] => bde0729579de457cb50d41e91a04137b \n ) \n ›
DEBUG |20220103 03:00:34|Not removing the non-processed file <root>administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup/site-www.nomadsailing.co.uk-20220103-030001-zHBvR7RIuVnBRc-U.jpa
WARNING |20220103 03:00:34|Post-processing interrupted -- no more files will be transferred

But my view is that if the post process fails, then the job has failed.

We had a recent disaster recovery situation where all our jpa backups were lost because our hosting provider cancelled our account and even though we were moving our jpa's to a completely different part of their service we also lost the jpa's

So the fact jpa's are still on the joomla server waiting for manual upload doesn't help if I lose the server

I believe the akeeba-check-failed.php script should send the alert if the transfer failed. 

The job is configured to back up joomla and transfer the JPA and it didn't/

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

I have explained this many times over the year.

If the upload fails your backup has not failed. Your backup is taken and it's valid. You can restore it. You have a working backup.

That's why upload failures are warnings, not errors. Errors stop the backup process, delete all files and mark the record as failed. Warnings mean that the backup did finish, it is valid but you need to take a look.

If we treated upload failures as errors you'd completely lose that backup. There are many more cases where this is a much bigger problem than having the backup archives sitting on your server until you rectify the issue and use the interface to upload them to remote storage.

The correct approach is to have the results of the backups emailed to you and use mail filters to flag backups with warnings. You can archive the successful backups — even though I prefer not doing that so I know which backups actually run after having been burned once with a CRON job that stopped working.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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