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I haven't had a chance to manually test the cronjob yet. Something came up that forced me to remove JoomlaCloner from the site, at least for now. I noticed several dozen identical mySQL errors in the Windows Event Viewer. They were "Cannot find table .../jos_captcha_session from the internal data dictionary of InnoDB though the .frm file for the table exists." It looks as if the error messages were generated at the times I did the backups.

I searched the web to get information about jos_captcha_session and found a reference were someone reported a similar problem that started when they installed JoomlaCloner. I went back and, sure enough, the error message started about the time I installed the trial version. I removed JoomlaCloner (and the ioncube loaders) and replaced the corrupt file with a backup that was good. There have been no errors since that.

Do you have any idea what may have caused this and how to prevent it?

-Larry Gelfand

The error is most probably generated from your mysql server, a repair query could have fixed your issue "REPAIR TABLE jos_captcha_session"

I would advise to use a repaid query on all your tables from time to time to keep a good maintenance level1

Anyway, JoomlaCloner does not alter in any way the site structure except for the obvious install script, i would suggest to try again and see if you have anymore issues!

Regards, Ovidiu

OK, I downloaded a new version of the cloner trial so I could try it on a different server. Everything works fine from within Joomla.

It turns out that jos_captcha_session was left over from a component that was removed 2 months ago, so I just deleted the file.

Back to trying to automate the cloner under Windows. The first mistake was that it seems you can't run a php script directly under windows. I did some research and tried the following command:
C:\...\php.exe -f C:\...\com_cloner\cloner.cron.php

When I modified Scheduled Tasks with the above command (and full paths ), Event Viewer showed that the script logged in and logged out after about 5 minutes but no backup appeared.

I tried running it from the command line and got the following error message:
"The encoded file C:\...\com_cloner\cloner.cron.php is not permissioned for this server."
I found this interesting since I had no problems running the clone from within Joomla.

In both of the above cases, the script was run with full administrator privileges, so privileges shouldn't be a problem. Any suggestions on what to try next?

Something must be still wrong in the command you use or in cron manager permissions, it should at least catch some output!

Here is a test you could make, create a simple php script and add these lines in it:



And try to run it as cron to see what the output is, it should be the string "text"

As for the encoding issue, i am afraid that is related to the ioncube encoder the trial version uses, have you tried generating a trial for your server ip address?

Ovidiu

You forgot to paste in the code you wanted me to put in the php script. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if there was still something wrong with the command I used.

I generated the trial for the server's domain name, not the ip address. I'll try generating one for the IP address.

-Larry Gelfand

Sorry, here it is again

Code:

print "test";

Ovidiu