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Joomla! version: (2.5.14)
PHP version: (5.3.1)
MySQL version: (5.1.40)
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Akeeba Backup version: (3.4.3)

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Description of my issue:

Hi

Continuing my previous ticket #18061: Red sign in table data exclusion and after reading the #16763 – default active profile, I realized that:

1. When I created a 2nd profile (#2) with the same setting as my default one, the red signs dissapeared from the exclusion tables (see ticket #18061).

For a moment I thought I solved my problem. However.....

2. When I tried to make this profile the active one it worked BUT when I logged out and logged in again the active profile was the default one (#1) having the same problem as the friend in # 16763 mentioned.

Now the question is: As I cannot delete the default (problematic in my occasion) profile, how I will make the 2nd one active permanently??

Maybe one solution should be to reverse the id numbers in the xxxx_ak_profiles table in Joomla keeping the rule that the #1 id is always the active profile?? Or it doesn't work this way??

You understand that this is a problem and I don't know how to overcome.

P.S. I made an upgrade to the latest Akeeba ver. in my testing server and I saw the same problem.

Thanks for your time

Dimosthenis Messinis
Athens, Greece

I do not think there is any way to make the #2 profile the permanent default. I do not know if you can switch the ID numbers in the database. If you are going to try that, make sure you have a backup first. phpMyAdmin is a great tool, but it can do a lot of damage really quickly.

Hi

I think It should be possible somehow because i think there are people like me who have more than 1 profiles. What the reason to make a backup active only for a session?
Thanks

If you are using a CRON backup or something like that, you can pass the profile number as part of the job parameters. So when you are triggering a remote backup it really doesn't matter what the default profile is. With a back end backup, you just have to remember to change the profile.

As I said in your other ticket, we'll get this fixed when Nicholas gets back, the inconvenience is temporary.