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#12497 How to do a Partial Restore: Joomla Menus, Articles, Categories

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Latest post by on Saturday, 30 June 2012 18:00 CDT

Wednesday, 30 May 2012 07:53 CDT

user64082
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: 2.5.4
PHP version: 5.3.3
MySQL version: 5.1.61
Host: http://stage3.woodsidelogic.com
Akeeba Backup version: 3.5.1

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Description of my issue:
I want to use Akeeba Backup Professional to copy selected Joomla Articles, Categories, and Menus from one Joomla installation (stage3.woodsidelogic.com) to another Joomla installation (www.woodsidelogic.com). I have taken a full backup of stage3.woodsidelogic.com. The two sites use different templates (from RocketTheme) and I'm not looking to replace the www site with the stage3 site. I just want to copy some (not all) of the Joomla Menus, Articles, and Categories from stage3 to www. Can this be done with Akeeba Backup/Restore? Please point me to any documentation on doing selected/partial restoring.

Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:36 CDT

nicholas
Hi Steve,

What you want to do is not possible in Joomla! 2.5.4. Menus, categories, articles and extensions all create records in the #__assets table. You can't just copy a few menu items and articles to a different site. You'd have to also transfer their asset records. However due to the ID collision among the two sites' tables that would be outright impossible. Sorry :(

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:11 CDT

user64082
Do you know if there is any API for adding a Joomla article? That is, is there some API that doesn't require the back-end GUI, but accomplishes the same thing either from the command line or by using REST APIs?

If so, this would help significantly to solve the problem of doing the article copy operation. If you can suggest any pointers, I can try to solve this problem.

Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:17 CDT

nicholas
Hm, I know of a way but I am afraid I will confuse you. Well, no harm in trying. There is a way to install an XML-RPC API which exposes Joomla!'s articles to blogging tools such as Windows Live Writer, ScribeFire etc. Essentially, the component implements the Movable Type API. For more details I can point you to a tutorial page I just found. From that point you can assign a developer to create a small application which reads the content tree from Site A (over the Movable Type API), compares it to Site B's content tree (again fetched over the Movable Type API) and add the missing content articles, of course over the Movable Type API. Not a perfect solution and it does have some kinks, e.g. cross-links between articles will certainly be broken. Moreover, using that method, ACL preferences are not transferred between the two sites. If you only want to transfer public content, thought, it's more than an adequate metod.

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!

Wednesday, 30 May 2012 17:26 CDT

user64082
I'll give it a try... thanks. I also looked one particular REST API. It claims to be able to create content.

But, you are right in that the content may refer to other content. Still, either your solution or the REST API approach is likely to save effort.

Thanks again... very nice of you to chime in so quickly!

Enjoy,
Steve

Thursday, 31 May 2012 02:29 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!

Saturday, 30 June 2012 18:00 CDT

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