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#40257 cron

Posted in ‘Akeeba Backup for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Environment Information

Joomla! version
5.0.2
PHP version
8.1.27
Akeeba Backup version
9.8.5

Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 07 February 2024 00:15 CST

caroline.b

I'm using a cron job to generate every month a backup with akeeba on a new website. And it is not working, no error, no backup 

Can you help me please

thanks 

caroline.b

My backups are working, i'm using a different timezone then the host. So i changed the time (1 hour earlier) and it is working!!!!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

I'm glad you resolved it! Since it's a public ticket, I'll put a bit of a public service announcement here for anyone else reading this.

This is indeed the number one problem in setting up a CRON job. The hosting control panel almost never says it, but the CRON jobs are always expressed in the timezone of your server. The trick is figuring out what that is. It's possible to have a host headquartered in one country, and its servers in another, or several other countries. If unsure, ask your host.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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