Cron Job Not Working.

[Guest orb123]

Hello,

I can't get my cron job working.

I'm trying to backup my website.

 

It's proberally something simple.

 

I'm using php -q /backup2/backup.zip

 

I get an email saying no input file specified.

 

Thanks for your help.

[Ice IT Support]

Try

php -q /backup2/backup.zip /home/username

Replacing username with your cPanel username.

[Guest orb123]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

 

I tried the above but I still recieve the same error "No input file specified."

[Guest orb123]

Could you please tell me how to fix it?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Ice IT Support]

Oops! I must have been half asleep when I wrote that! The php command runs a PHP script in the terminal. So to create a zip backup of your site, we have to write a PHP script to do so, and then use

php -q /home/username/path/to/your/script.php

As the cron command. There are plenty of examples when googling how to zip a directory with PHP.