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#20285 System Restore Points

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:18 CDT

kiwi
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Description of my issue:

Hello Nicholas / Akeeba,

On Joomla 2.5.20 and 3.3.0 sites (live and dev/test) I have noticed that when updating an extension where Akeeba Backup creates a System Restore Point before updating the extension that on occasion the next System Restore Point in the list of Restore Points would become "Obsolete".

(The Joomla 3.3.0 sites have now been updated to 3.3.1 but the issue intermittently occurred when they were v3.3.0).

This would not happen every time. I have been trying to find a common element for when this does happen. (Not yet found anything that is obvious to me).

However, now that Akeeba Backup has been updated to v3.11.2 this appears to be happening more regularly.

My normal process for carrying out updates are:

1) "other" (I.e non-joomla, and non-Akeeba extensions);
2) Akeeba Backup;
3) Akeeba AdminTools;
4) Joomla;

On my latest update of Akeeba Backup, 4 of my "other" System Restore Points on one site became Obsolete.

I normally check each extension updated immediately after updating it in case of any issue(s) and have,so far, never needed to use the Restore/Roll Back feature.

Dev/Test sites are done before live sites.

There is one more site for me to do some updates on (Live) - but want to apply caution before proceeding.

I found one of your previous tickets which was similar (ticket 9184) but this was from 30th November 2011 - your great products have been updated several times since then.

Do you have any tips / pointers on how I might be able to pinpoint where my issue lies ?

Perhaps swapping points 1) and 2) above ?

So far, I have been fortunate enough

Regards,

Tim

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
System Restore Points are actually backups made with profile #1. This means that the quotas (size, count, day) specified in the Configuration page for backup profile #1 also apply to System Restore Points. You just need to change the quotas for backup profile #1. Of course this means that you'd be better off NOT using profile #1 for your regular site backups: create a new profile for them.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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kiwi
Hello Nicholas,

Many thanks for your reply.

Have you ever wandered about something and then someone explains - and you bury your head in your hands and say to yourself: "Of course !" (Maybe an expletive added).

Well this is one of those for me.

Sorry to have taken up your time.

Regards,

Tim.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
To your defense, it's not something terribly obvious :)

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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