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#37617 Novice questions about the WebCron and Akeeba Backup

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
4.1.5
PHP version
8.0.22
Akeeba Backup version
9.3.0

Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 29 August 2022 02:46 CDT

Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:00 CDT

davedbw

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Having just installed the Pro version of Akeeba backup for Joomla, I set up the WEBCRON procedure for backup.  After checking the backup log this morning I have three questions about the backup.  Scanning the log file there is much in here that I don't understand.  But I want to ensure the backup is running correctly.

1.  Checking the WebCRON website this morning, in the History tab, the backup has a 928 Error message.  I had the time set to 128.  I have quickly scanned the log file and I don't see an error time out in the log at the end.  Does this mean I should increase the time to the next setting of 600?  The log file is attached.

2.  How do I know from the log file that the SQL database was backup correctly?  What do I look for in the log file?

3.  In the log there are several DEPRECATED notices that seem to related to Factory.php.  Is there something here I should do to resolve this?  I don't know what this component is in Joomla 4.1.x.

I purchased and join the Akeeba backup service because of an incident that forced me to rebuild my Joomla 4 site.  So I want to be sure your service is running properly, I've set things up properly, and my confidence in the backup process is very high.  

Thanks,

Dave Williams

Monday, 29 August 2022 02:46 CDT

nicholas

1. Yes, increase the time for the CRON job.

2. If the backup is complete then by definition it has backed up your tables. If there were any problems doing that there would be warnings in the log file.

3. You don't have to concern yourself with these. Joomla added the deprecated notices WITHOUT providing an alternative yet. Sometime around Joomla 5 or 6 we will have the alternative and implement it. Until then we have to live with the deprecated notices. I know it's annoying and I did explain that to the core contributor who made these changes, as well as the fact that us third party developers need to support older Joomla minor versions (4.0, in this case) which cannot ever support any new code added in newer versions (4.1 and later), meaning that we have to choose between NOT supporting our clients who have not yet upgraded OR having to reply to tickets like this one here, from confused users who see the badly worded deprecated notices and worry that we don't know what we are doing. We are still trying to find a good alternative but it's hard if not impossible.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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