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#19815 Files remaining on server after failure to transfer to AmazonS3

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Latest post by tampe125 on Tuesday, 15 April 2014 01:44 CDT

oorzaak
Hi Nicholas,

I use Akeeba Backup to make a full backup of every site with a daily cron schedule in combination with external storage of backup files on Amazon S3. This works very good, also when restoring a backup.

However, sometimes the transfer of files to Amazon is interrupted, presumably by slow network connections. I understand that this may happen once in a while. The problem for my sites is that I always delete the files from my own server after transfer, but the deletion does not take place if the transfer was interrupted. This may result in quite a few backup files residing on the server and using up diskspace, if I'm not quick at removing them. And it seems to me that they slow down the backup process and (as a result of that) maybe even make it more likely to have the transfer interrupted again, thus creating some negative spiral.

Would there be a way to have these files removed automatically after the transfer has failed? Maybe as an optional setting? In most cases, a new backup (maybe the cron of the next day) will run without any problems.


Kind regards,
Frits

oorzaak
Edit: I always have Akeeba delete the files from my server AUTOMATICALLY after transfer of the files to Amazon.

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello Frits,

files are not deleted is the backup fails because, otherwise, you are deleting the only copy of the current backup.
If you want to be notified about failed backup upload, you can do that easily using email filters: Akeeba will output a big warning if the backup fails, and you should be receive this message by email.
You can setup a filter on your email account: if you anything went wrong, you simply have to login, delete the archive and try again.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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oorzaak
Hi Davide,

Thanks for your reply. Your solution sounds like a good way to deal with a transfer failure, I'll try to implement it.

Kind regards,

Frits

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
You're welcome!

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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