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#13876 Skipping tables in database restoration

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 07:17 CDT

user20478
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: 2.5
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Akeeba Backup version: 3.6.7

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Description of my issue: I have accidentaly deleted my whole site directory, and all I have is a .jpa file of it, but the problem is in this backup I have not only the core database tables, but all of the database tables that were in that database. So I am getting Errors at different lines, saying: CREATE OR REPLACE ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED VIEW... and then saying one of the tables which are not core: "... is not VIEW"

So I am quite desperate... is there a way to skip tables? So that I can only backup the core tables for example. Any help extremely appreciated!

Regards,
humdum

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Can you please paste the exact error message?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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user20478
Hi, managed to solve it somehow. I think the problem was that the script restores it in alphabetical order, instead of tables -> stored procedures -> views, am I right?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
It depends. There's an option in Akeeba Backup to skip dependency tracking. If you enable that, everything is restored in alphabetic order. Otherwise Akeeba Backup respects dependencies between tables, views, stored procedures and functions – unless there is a cyclic reference i.e. A depends on B which depends on C which depends on A.

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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