Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 02:38 CDT

trevorsm

Hi

My hosting company has removed wget but has suggested using fetch instead. Just replacing wget with fetch in my cron job resulted in: fetch: illegal option -- -
I removed --max-redirect=10000 and it created a .jpa file in the backup folder but did not upload it to S3.
Can I use fetch instead of wget?

Thanks
Trevor

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 06:39 CDT

dlb

I don't know anything about the fetch command. I'll flag this for Nicholas.

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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 03:49 CDT

nicholas

"fetch" is not a standard Linux command. I've never heard of it and I don't know how it works. You can ask your hosting company if "fetch" supports an unlimited number of HTTP redirections (required for backing up your site). At this point I can only suppose that your existing backup is partial and corrupt, therefore should be treated as having no backup at all.

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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 11:32 CDT

trevorsm

My hosting company thought that fetch supported unlimited redirections by default but on checking the backup file there was a lot missing.

I will look again tomorrow.

Thanks
Trevor

Wednesday, 04 August 2010 12:22 CDT

nicholas

That's what I thought. My guess is that fetch follows the standard web practice of aborting at 20 redirections.

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Thursday, 05 August 2010 00:10 CDT

trevorsm

I have managed to get it working using cURL as suggested in your documentation. Here is the cron command:
/usr/local/bin/curl -b /tmp/cookies.txt -c /tmp/cookies.txt -L --max-redirs 1000 -v "http://mydomain.com/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=backup&key=mykey&format=raw" > /dev/null

Thanks
Trevor

Thursday, 05 August 2010 05:05 CDT

nicholas

Indeed, curl is the best option when wget is not available. I'm glad you resolved this!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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