MAKING THE AUTOBACKUP PLUGIN RUN AUTOMATICALLY - Dec 29th, 2018

It seems that the auto backup plugin doesn’t run in the background on a server. Which means that no backups will be run unless, according to Chris Waddell at Interactive Tools, “...something hits admin.php periodically.” You can read the entire thread at: http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/Products_C2/CMS_Builder%3A_Plugins_%26_Add-ons_F40/P84078 Chris offered a few solutions. 1) Set up one of the many Web Cron services to hit your admin.php page, allowing Auto Backup to do its thing. You won't need to provide a username/password or anything. Also, Web Crons tend to be very easy to configure! User kblm suggested that to keep your backups from getting a prefix of “no-hostname” when running a cron, you can enter a file prefix on the line: $GLOBALS['AUTOBACKUP_DEFAULT_PREFIX'] = ''; // Backup file prefix, leave blank to use current domain name 2) Changing the line in the plugin below will cause a normal site visit to trigger automatic backups: addAction('init_complete', 'autoBackup_updateBackups', null, 0); to autoBackup_updateBackups(); Chris noted that this might cause some extra strain on your server if you get a lot of visitors. User aev suggested: “If we have 1000 pageviews/hour wouldn't that require only a simple 'if' check or something similar for 999 of those? And then pageview #1000 triggers the backup?“

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