Comments on: Cloud Backup Case study: Detecting if Magento cron is running in your extensions

By: SBR

SBR — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:25:04 +0000

Hey Ash, Thanks for the heads up. I was playing around with this for a while on my test store and now moving it to a full production environment. You should probably get a signup via the PureHerbalCure store sometime today. 🙂

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:21:08 +0000

Hi, SBR
At the moment Amazon keeps the Devpay S3 buckets separate/isolated from the user’s own buckets – I’m not 100% sure why they do that, probably security. In any case what it means is we cannot access your personal buckets, and you cannot access the backup buckets. It causes a lot of confusion so I will add a note to the admin area in the next release, but until Amazon changes the way their S3 service works, we can’t do much about it I’m afraid. Hope you’re still keen to try it out despite that limitation.

By: SBR

SBR — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:35:10 +0000

Is there a way to send this to a S3 bucket in my aws account. Currently, it is sending to a bucket which is not controlled by us. So technically, I cannot physically view the contents of the bucket from my aws control panel.

By: DSchragg

DSchragg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:44:06 +0000

I just tried to install the Magento Cloud Backup extension and Magento Connect Manager returned an error – “community/Aschroder_CloudBackup: Version for ‘Aschroder_CloudBackup’ was not detected” ????

Any thoughts?

By: loopion

loopion — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:48:08 +0000

really nice way to check it. Should maybe check that your specific task is running by filtering by the string of your job_code. Like in cron_schedule table “export_apply_all” job_code have at least one “status” set as “success”.

It’s like an egocentric cronjob checker :p

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:57:21 +0000

Hey J.T! I think instead of a module, I should add some sort of cron-calling functionality to MageSpeedTest.com – so you can request a call to /cron.php every 5,10,15,30,60 minutes for each store. Then you can get a daily summary if it misses any – though you would not get to see errors if they happen when it is called.

It can be a ‘premium’ subscription feature! (Along with uptime and response time monitoring from 4 data centres globally).
What do you think?

By: J.T.

J.T. — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:47:27 +0000

I just look in the DB. It’s all there in one table. But would be nice to wrap this in an admin module and if it hasn’t been running, you can click a “run now” button to go and manually trigger it asap.

Cron is one of those principally simple things which has a knack of going wrong silently, with grave consequences. Often, things start faltering cumulatively, like with stock control etc.

Any tools for early diagnosis are helpful. I sense a new Ashley-module coming… 🙂