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#29823 Backing up and restoring Joomla site with some database tables as "views" of antoher Joomla site.

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Latest post by on Thursday, 12 July 2018 17:17 CDT

Fredjet
Hi,

My question is a bit general but specific to my set-up.

I have two Joomla sites. Site A and Site B.

Since my sites share users, Site B does not have its own version of the following tables:
_session
_usergroups
_users
_user_notes
_user_profiles
_user_usergroup_map
_viewlevels

Instead, Site B has MySQL "views" with identical names that simply pull in all the data from Site A.

Because of this, I have problems maintaining an Akeeba back-up file on Site B that I can easily restore without it trying to replace the "views" with actual tables.

Any ideas on how I can achieve an restore-able file?

Thanks in advance.

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

sadly you can't: you'll always have to backup both databases and tables.
That's because views will be rebuilt after the database backup completes.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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