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Description of my issue:

Hi there,

We use Akeeba on all of our customers websites and we noticed that in several cases the old backup (past the number selected in the configuration) and failed backup files were not supressed by Akeeba automatically.

On one of our site where the backup fails often, we found more than 50 Go of old files some from 2012. We first thought it was due to the old version of joomla and Akeeba running on that one, but we noticed later that we had the same issue on some of our joomla 3.3.6 websites updated once a month and thus always running the last version of akeeba. On those, it seems to be only the failed backups that are not removed.

Not really a problem for us in fact now that we know it and we do not really need support for. We just wanted you to know it.

Also a good occasion to tell you that we really appreciate your extensions and use them everywhere we can.

App 'n' Web - Helene Kobel

Yes, on both exemples the count quota is enabled and configured to keep 3 backups. But both the joomla 3.3.6 / Akeeba 4.1.2 and the Joomla 1.5.23 / Akeeba 3.4.6 keep the failed backups as well.

On the Joomla 1.5 site, I also found some very old backups (not failed) but it's too long ago to know exactly what happened.

Attached a screenshot of the Joomla 3 one where you will see 4 parts of failed backups on 23.01.2015 (due to host issue). They have not been removed.

Could it be due to the fact that they are removed (or not) from the backup list in the "Manage backup panel" ?

Because the failed one from december 9 on the same site was actually removed and it is on the list, but I can't find the one of january, so maybe I removed the entries.

Anyway, on the 1.5 site, I am sure I never removed any entries from the list (except after cleaning all the old backups) and the files were kept from 2012 until now, despite the quota count.

Ok, then it's alright for me but you should mention it somewhere because it's not obvious in the configuration that the quota management only concern the sucessful backups.

Thanks a lot for your explanations.