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#43310 Warnings during backup creation

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
6.1.3
PHP version
8.3.33
Akeeba Backup version
10.4.0

Latest post by gneumann on Monday, 07 September 2026 02:12 CDT

Friday, 04 September 2026 03:39 CDT

gneumann
Dear Support, since update to Akeeba BAckup V. 10.4.0, Warnings appear, when crating backups:
"PHP WARNING (not an error; you can ignore) on line 127 in file /hp/ct/aa/qr/www/lbitconsult/php/gw2/administrator/components/com_akeebabackup/vendor/akeeba/engine/engine/Util/Logger.php:
unlink(/hp/ct/aa/qr/www/lbitconsult/php/gw2/administrator/components/com_akeebabackup/backup/akeeba.backend.id-20260904-080151-520418.php): No such file or directory
PHP WARNING (not an error; you can ignore) on line 127 in file /hp/ct/aa/qr/www/lbitconsult/php/gw2/administrator/components/com_akeebabackup/vendor/akeeba/engine/engine/Util/Logger.php:
unlink(/hp/ct/aa/qr/www/lbitconsult/php/gw2/administrator/components/com_akeebabackup/backup/akeeba.backend.id-20260904-080151-520418.log): No such file or directory"
Despite it says "not an error; you can ignore", I think this behaviour is worth providing feedback on. Any recommendations what to do? Kind regards Gerd

Friday, 04 September 2026 04:33 CDT

nicholas

As it says, you can ignore it. We try to find log files to delete with either the .log or .log.php extension. These are done with an @ (silence operator) so they do not output warnings when the file doesn't exist; we only expect one of them to exist. The log file also catches these silenced warnings and reports them.

I have already made a change in the engine which performs a file existence check before running the deletion so that no (silenced) warning is generated, and nothing is recorded in the backup log.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 07 September 2026 02:12 CDT

gneumann
Hi Nicholas, thank you for information. Will ignore ;-). Regards Gerd

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