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#13764 What does bracket in file size mean + different file size

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:00 CDT

Wednesday, 10 October 2012 05:57 CDT

user69148
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: 2.5.7
PHP version: 5.3
MySQL version: (unknown)
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Akeeba Backup version: 3.6.5 Pro

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Description of my issue:

Hello,

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere, I searched as hard as I can but I couldn't find it.

I have bought Akeeba Backup Pro yesterday for the upload to S3 feature. I have set it to upload 10MB parts. Backs up without a hitch (upload's slow, but I guess it's due to my host), but...why is the size much smaller (about half, actually) than my previous (non-multipart) backups?

My previous backups usually come at 170+MB. The multi-part ones (remote and local) are only 80+MB (shown in brackets eg '(86.75MB)', I assume that means multi-part). Is there something I'm doing wrong?

This is my backup log (you are going to hide it, right?) -https://dl.dropbox.com/u/107772075/Akeeba%20Backup%20Debug%20Log.txt


Thank you.

Wednesday, 10 October 2012 07:49 CDT

nicholas
Hello Mas,

The number in the parentheses is the total size of the backup. It's correct. Your log file tells me that your backup's size is 86.75 Mb:
DEBUG   |121010 14:46:54|Total size of backup archive (in bytes): 90104614

There are also no warnings about unreadable files / folders, so I am pretty sure this is the correct size.

Why were your older backups bigger? Maybe it was a bad setup, e.g. not using the extended INSERTs for database data. Maybe you were backing up a secondary site or an older backup stored, let's say, in your site's root. In any case the current backup seems to be correct in size.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:39 CDT

user69148
Hi Nicholas,

Yeah, maybe I was using a bad config in the older backups. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that it's smaller now - I'm just curious if it's smaller because it leaves out some stuff due to errors.

I'm going to try restoring to make sure. But my curiosity has been answered, so I'm closing this ticket. Thank you for the speedy response!

Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:00 CDT

nicholas
It was a very reasonable question. I would be worried if I saw such a drop in size, just like you were now. Asking me was a good thing. As you guessed, there's only one thing which is better than reading the log: doing a test restoration of the site on a subdomain or on a local server (e.g. WAMPServer, XAMPP, MAMP, ...) ;)

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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