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	As well as creating manual backups

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Akeeba Backup Professional

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offers us the opportunity

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to automate the process

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with cron jobs ensuring that

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we always have an up to date backup.

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Go to schedule automatic backup.

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Here we can see the information for 
creating Command Line cron jobs

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the recommended method.	

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This does require that you can use

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the Cron interface of your web host.

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Here Akeeba Backup Professional

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is showing you the exact syntax to use

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in your cron job.

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However you will see that the 
beginning (path/to/php)

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needs to be changed to

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to be the actual path of your hosts

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PHP CLI executable

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if you do not know this

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your host can provide it to you.

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So to begin let's copy this

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and go to our hosting panel.

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My host uses cPanel

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and this video assumes that 
you are using cPanel as well.

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Locate the Cron icon.

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As you can see

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in my case it is right at the 
bottom in the Advanced Group

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but it may be different on your host.

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Now we need to set the details of the cron job.

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Remember a cron job

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is just a timed activity.

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Here I can see that I can set it

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to run twice an hour, once an hour,

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once a day etc.

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I am going to chose once a day

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In this example

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it is going to take place

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at the top of the hour at midnight.

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Now we need to put the command here

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in the Command box.

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This is what we copied from Akeeba Backup

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So let's paste it in

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BUT remember to change

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 the /path/to/php

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On my web host

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/path/to/php

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is /usr/local/php7/bin/php-cli

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but it may be different on your host

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and you should confirm this with them.

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Finally click Add New Cron Job

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and we can see that the cron job

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has been created

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and at midnight every day

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this command will be executed

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and a backup will be taken of your web site.

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So now thanks to the cron job

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a backup will take place

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every single day

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at the designated time.