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#22737 Backup file is larger than expected.

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Latest post by dlb on Thursday, 04 June 2015 22:55 CDT

Thursday, 04 June 2015 18:53 CDT

honeyflowfarm
I am in the process of rebuilding my live joomla2.5 site in a subfolder with joomla3.4.1 installed. When I backup the new site in the subfolder the backup file is 1.9gb. The backup file of the original (live site – j2.5) is only 764mb
The largest folder in both of them is the image folder which is 1.86gb.
I have another live site in a subdomain (Joomla3.4.1) with most of the same image folder in it and the backup is only 528gb.
What is causing the file to be so large?

Thursday, 04 June 2015 22:55 CDT

dlb
I found one large file:
INFO    |150603 18:28:32|Breaking step _before_ large file: <root>/images/vineyard/grapepages1/steuben/7-6-2007 7-27-37 PM_0027.png - size: 23867719

There were a bunch of large directories - you can spot them by searching for "large directory".

With that large a size increase usually we're picking up an old backup archive that is out of place or another site located in a subfolder, but I couldn't find either. There isn't anything in the log that jumps out as wrong.


Dale L. Brackin
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