As well as creating manual backups
Akeeba Backup
offers you the opportunity
to automate the process
to ensure that you will always have
an up to date backup.
Here on the control panel
we can see an option called
schedule automatic backup.
Here we can see the information for creating Command Line cron jobs
the recommended method.
This does require that you can use
the Cron interface of your web host.
Here Akeeba Backup Professional
is showing you the exact syntax to use
in your cron job.
However you will see that the beginning (path/to/php)
needs to be changed to
to be the actual path of your hosts
PHP CLI executable
if you do not know this
your host can provide it to you.
So to begin let's copy this
and go to our hosting panel.
My host uses cPanel
and this video assumes that you are using cPanel as well.
Locate the Cron icon.
As you can see
in my case it is right at the bottom in the Advanced Group
but it may be different on your host.
Now we need to set the details of the cron job.
Remember a cron job
is just a timed activity.
Here I can see that I can set it
to run twice an hour, once an hour,
once a day etc.
I am going to chose once a day
In this example
it is going to take place
at the top of the hour at midnight.
Now we need to put the command here
in the Command box.
This is what we copied from Akeeba Backup
So let's paste it in
BUT remember to change
the /path/to/php
On my web host
/path/to/php
is /usr/local/php7/bin/php-cli
but it may be different on your host
and you should confirm this with them.
Finally click Add New Cron Job
and we can see that the cron job
has been created
and at midnight every day
this command will be executed
and a backup will be taken of your web site.
So now thanks to the cron job
a backup will take place
every single day
at the designated time.