Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Sunday, 11 September 2011 02:22 CDT

user46264

I am using Joomla 1.7 and the latest version of Akeebabackup. All is running on a CentOS 5.6 Server maintained by myself.

I try to define a backup location outside of the Joomla instance. It is a mounted NFS directory that points to another storage on the same network.

This seems not to work. The output path is always set back to .../administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup. I have changed the owner to root:apache on the specified directory and gave write permission to group (chmod -R g+w ). When I define that directory there is a note saying that this directory is outside of the Joomla directory and its content my not be read...

Any idea what I am missing or is it not possible to place backups on a different filesystem?

Thanks for your help.

Sunday, 11 September 2011 02:34 CDT

nicholas

You have to make sure of two things:

1. If you have open_basedir restrictions in your php.ini file you must put the NFS root path in there, otherwise PHP will be unable to access this directory.

2. Mind your ownership. NFS shares use the ownership (user, group) numerical IDs of the remote system. In order to make the directory writable, you may have to give the target directory in your NFS share 0777 permissions.

3. If you are using PHP in CGI/FastCGI mode running in a chroot jail, please note that the effective filesystem root is your site's root directory. This means that any directory outside your site's root is inaccessible, as it is outside the chroot jail PHP is confined in. Using a symlink to the NFS share also won't work, as the symlink points to a non-existent path when you are inside the chroot jail. Under these circumstances, the only way to deal with the issue is to remove the chroot jail and use a different security method, e.g. suPHP and/or open_basedir restrictions.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Thursday, 15 September 2011 11:59 CDT

user46264

Hi Nicholas,
Thanks for your help and sorry for the late answer, I could not look at this earlier.

The second hint solved the problem. I re-created the directories on the remote system and they got other numerical IDs and 777 but are limited to certain IP-Adresses. It is working now.

Thanks again!

Thoma

Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:01 CDT

nicholas

Akeeba Staff

Manager

You're welcome! I am glad it's working now :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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