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#14032 Issue dong a site Transfer

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 07 November 2012 10:10 CST

user62271
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: (1.5)
PHP version: (5)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (site ground, we own the server this is on)
Akeeba Backup version: (3.4.3)

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Description of my issue: I have tried to back up a site to another server, we run two on site ground, but it would be better for me to do it on one so I started that this morning, going between the two did not work it stopped similar to this. The transfer had gotten to about 73% and then stopped with an error, and the log is attached. I filled out all info correctly, and we own everything and have a blank slate, or empty folder, to transfer into. Not sure why this is shutting down. I got the most stable recent version that would work with 1.5 to do this and this has failed several times.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You have a very large file, Alumni/images/alumniSpotlight.psd (almost 20Mb). Transferring this file between the two sites takes a very long time. This causes a PHP timeout issue and the transfer process is halted.

There is another way to transfer the site to its new location:
- Create a new backup profile
- Set the Part Size for Split Archives to 5 or 10Mb (lower is better)
- Set the data processing engine to "Upload to Remote FTP" and set it up so that the backup archive is being uploaded to the new site's root
- Run a backup
- Upload kickstart.php to the new site and run it

This will have Akeeba Backup create a backup, transfer it to the new site and you get to use Kickstart to extract and restore the backup on the new site. You will simply have to enter the new database connection info, which you would have to do anyway.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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