How to setup cron jobs

[emenick]

Hi

I wondered if there is a guide on how to setup cron jobs?

The original setup guide on http://get-simple.info/docs/cron-setup seems to have been removed...

Thank you very much.

[Connie]

What do you want to acchieve with cron-jobs?

On what kind of system?

please give more info on that topic, so maybe somebody will find an answer for you

Cheers, Connie

[emenick]

Hi Connie

I would like to setup some kind of backup of my website, but besides that i'm no expert in cron jobs.

Is there any other way to do automatically generated backups - maybe via some plugin?

Thank you.

[Connie]

there is no need to run cronjobs, you can do any backup from the backend anytime

read the wiki:

backup pages: http://get-simple.info/wiki/how_to:backup_pages

but most interesting here:

http://get-simple.info/wiki/how_to:backup_website

you can do a complete backup of your website with "one click"

cheers, Connie

[emenick]

I'm already using this "one click" method, but I was hoping there was a way to have it done automatically.

Anyways, thank you.

Cheers

[Connie]

emenick,

to run a cron job depends on your hosting configuration, whether you can setup cron jobs or not
it depends which Operating System is active: is it LINUX, is it WIN?

so as these operations are not part of Getsimple, I suggest you contact your hoster's support
they should be able to point you how to setup such a job or maybe they set it up for you

you know which data is important to have it "backuped":

/data/
/plugins/
/theme/

plus the language file in admin/lang if you use a language file

infos on cron jobs: http://www.cronjob.com/

I just found by google, that there are even free cronjob-services around, see here for example:
http://www.onlinecronjobs.com/

cheers, Connie

[emenick]

Hi Connie,

Thank you very much for all your great help and effort.

I will be looking into your suggestions shortly, and I'm sure that will be sufficient.

Cheers

[ccagle8]

Is there any other way to do automatically generated backups

This used to be core functionality, but we removed it when we had security issues.