[Koha] (koha) BACKUP KOHA VIA TOOLS

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Ummm... could be a permissions issue. Try to run the command:

sudo koha-run-backups

from the terminal and see if it works.

On Wed, 10 Mar, 2021, 5:23 pm muiru james, <muirunyeri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> The config file is enabled.
>
> Could it be that the installation was not done as root? Because when I
> tried opening the config file using leafpad, I got a warning that the file
> is not owned by root.
>
> Regards
> James
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, 11:41 Indranil Das Gupta, <indradg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The option to download the database from the Tools menu depends on two
>> things:
>>
>> a) the koha-run-backups script needs to run via the daily cron job to
>> generate the file under /var/spool/koha/<instance>
>>
>> b) the relevant config option needs to be enabled in koha-conf.xml
>>
>> You need to check if a) koha-run-backups is actually generating the backup
>> by ruining it manually from the command line, b) check if the cron job is
>> running correctly.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>> Indranil Das Gupta
>> L2C2 Technologies.
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Mar, 2021, 1:49 pm muiru james, <muirunyeri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello team,
>> >
>> > I have a system that has no backups to download at the export data,
>> backups
>> > in the tools module. The config file is well edited to allow for the
>> > backups via tools.
>> >
>> > What could be the problem?
>> >
>> > Koha version is 19.05
>> > Ubuntu 16.04
>> >
>> > Please help
>> >
>> > Warm Regards
>> > James
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