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#14199 smalpartial backup only

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 30 November 2012 01:30 CST

Thursday, 29 November 2012 12:58 CST

user41952

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? No
Have I searched the tickets before posting? No
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: 2.5.8
PHP version: 5.3
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: vidahost
Akeeba Backup version: 3.6.9

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:

 

Hi

My akeeba backup is only backing up a small proportion of the data on there, its about 45mb when it should be a few hundred?

 

Thanks

 

Edited by user41952 on 2012-11-29 13:01 CST

Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:31 CST

nicholas

As written above:

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.

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!

Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:35 CST

user41952

Sorry my bad, here it is

Friday, 30 November 2012 01:30 CST

nicholas

There is no problem. Your backup is full and complete. You only think that it's incomplete. Remember that Akeeba Backup doesn't backup the cache, tmp and logs contents (these are temporary files which MUST not be backed up), the contents of the #__sessions table (your site would be broken on restoration), the contents of the Smart Search tables (they are too much and can be regenerated anytime), your emails, off-site folders (unless you say so) and any other piece of information stored on your server, under your user account, but not inside Joomla!'s root directory or database. This is a huge difference in size.

For example, this site. Size on disk (reported by the hosting control panel): 7Gb. Backup size: 200Mb. The rest is cache, logs, emails and other cruft which should not (and is not) backed up.

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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