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#27048 Admin Tools Warning During Akeeba Backup

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Latest post by on Tuesday, 07 March 2017 17:17 CST

Saturday, 04 February 2017 20:50 CST

aroundi
 Hello,

While performing an Akeeba Backup (ver. 5.2.5) I got this warning:

Column diff of table #__admintools_scanalerts contains 9484670 bytes of data. This may cause restoration issues.

I found this post in the forum:

https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/akeeba-backup-3x/26518-warning-message-2-2.html

which is a helpful explanation.

I would like to clear the warning though. I had the 'Calculate diffs when scanning' option enabled; I've tried disabling the option and re-scanning as well as deleting about half of previous scans. I also ran 'Fix File Permissions'. Backups still throw the warning. Is there something I can do with the AT and/or AB configurations to avoid generating the warning? I was hoping disabling Calculate diffs would do it.

Thanks,

mark

Sunday, 05 February 2017 08:15 CST

nicholas
You have to delete the old scan results. Do keep in mind that each #__admintools_scanalerts record is one changed file per scan.

Alternatively, you can simply exclude the contents of that table from the backup. This makes more sense in my opinion. You don't really want to backup the scan results. This information is no longer interesting after you have restored a backup therefore there's no point backing it up.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Sunday, 05 February 2017 08:49 CST

aroundi
Thank you Nickolas.

I overlooked the option to select DB tables for exclusion. It's the perfect solution.

My apologies for the weekend post. I thought I'd write it up and wait for the weekdays for a response.

rgds,

mark

Sunday, 05 February 2017 13:07 CST

nicholas
No problem :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Tuesday, 07 March 2017 17:17 CST

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Edited by on 2017-03-07 17:17 CST

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