Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

#8788 CRON Timings

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 09:25 CST

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 06:40 CST

sandstorm871

I know its probably not an issue with Akeeba, but is there a way to set a specific time for a CRON backup?

Ive recently only just changed from using the lazyplugin to cron backups.

In the lazy plugin I could set the exact time of the back up, but Im not sure how to when using the CRON job.

currently I have all my sites backing up daily, and they all back up at midday. I would prefer this to back up early morning and at staggered timings.

Thanks in advance

Andy

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 06:58 CST

nicholas

It depends on the host. For instance, in cPanel there is a field for the hour, minute and second when you want the CRON job to fire. Different hosts have different interfaces to the CRON scheduling daemon. Ask your host. It's such a common question that they're bound to have some documentation about it.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:06 CST

sandstorm871

I think I have it!

I am using cPanel on a dedicated server and had used common settings.

I'm guessing If i select
minutes 5
hours 5
days 1

then the CRON will run at 5:05 daily.

Thanks,

Andy

Edited by sandstorm871 on 2011-01-25 07:06 CST

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 09:25 CST

nicholas

You're almost there! For "days" use a single star. If you use 1 you are telling the CRON daemon to only fire on the first day of the month. With * you tell it to fire every day. If you want to do that every second day, use */2.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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