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#11754 I am concerned that Akeeba is not Backing Up my Full website

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 30 March 2012 02:11 CDT

Wednesday, 28 March 2012 22:30 CDT

user61155
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.3
PHP version: 3.4.3.2
MySQL version: 5.1
Host: ScaleEngine.com
Akeeba Backup version: 3.4.3

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Please attach a ZIP file containing your Akeeba Backup log file in order for us to help you with any backup or restoration issue. If the file is over 2Mb, please upload it on your server and post a link to it.

Description of my issue:
I am concerned that Akeeba is not actually Backing Up my Full website.
The total uncompressed file size of the website on my PC is about 75 MB's.
When I do a Full Site Backup on my PC or Host Webserver, the Akeeba backup file size is only 23MB's.
I am using the JPA format.

I am totally out of my depth with this issue.
Attached is the Log File.
Thank you for your assistance.

Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:24 CDT

nicholas
I don't see any problems during backup. Please note that your site includes some files which are temporary and should not be backed up, files which Akeeba Backup automatically excludes:
- the cache and administrator/cache directories' contents
- the tmp directory's contents
- Thumbs.db files (I bet you were using Windows on the machine you built your site on, he he)
- Akeeba Backup's backup files, i.e. we are not backing up the old backups, that would be a huge waste of space and time!
This explains the big size difference.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:54 CDT

user61155
Thank you for your quick response.
Thank you for explaining something simple yet important.
Cheers :)

Friday, 30 March 2012 02:11 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome!

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!

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