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#22744 AB upgrade - size of backup

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Latest post by davidryedale on Tuesday, 09 June 2015 01:55 CDT

Monday, 08 June 2015 05:29 CDT

davidryedale
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Description of my issue:

This I hope is more of a feedback item than a problem:

I backed up my website today prior to a JCE and Akeeba Backup upgrade to the latest versions from the immediately prior versions.

I then backed up again with the latest versions of both installed.

The back-up file size has reduced from 575.87Mb (where it has been about for a while) to 511.94Mb.

Do you know why this has arisen, or if there any easy way to compare the two files to see where the difference has arisen? It is a substantial change. I am checking also with JCE.

Thanks

David

Monday, 08 June 2015 06:25 CDT

nicholas
Most likely it has nothing to do with the component files themselves. Old versions of Akeeba Backup had a bug which made them back up some useless files such as error_log (PHP error logs), core.* (Apache core dumps), sometimes Thumbs.db / .DS_Store files (thumbnails cache) and the contents of your logs directory.

All these files tend to be large and useless in the context of a site backup. These files are for troubleshooting. If you have to restore a backup these files offer you nothing at all. So we are now excluding them automatically. Hence the smaller backup size.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 09 June 2015 01:55 CDT

davidryedale
Makes sense. Thank you.

David

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