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Hi,

I have akeeba backup running multiple backup profiles on our site and post processing the archives to Amazon S3. Once in a while the post processing would fail and 3 months later I have 30 Gigs of archives that were not moved to Amazon and this requires manual intervention from my end.

Is it possible to either reprocess the failed uploads (post processing) or clean these up automatically after a period of time?

I read about the akeeba-check-failed.php script and looks like that only check's for the failed backups and sends out email (hence again a manual action is required).

Thank you,

Chetan

Chetan,

If your backup fails, even if the failure is in the post processing phase, you should know about it.  Generally the CRON job output will give you a success message at the end and it is a pretty quick way of seeing if the job finished successfully.  You can also filter for keywords in the CRON output so that you don't even see it if the job completed.

As you know, you can use the akeeba-check-failed.php script will tell you if your latest backup failed or stalled.

A failed backup is a very serious matter.  It would be very bad policy to do automatic cleanup in that situation.

Thanks Dale, It's not the backup that fails but the post processing. I am not sure if both are considered backup as the backup does show up as successful in the Joomla backend even though the file is locally and not on AWS.

You're right, usually when the failure is in post processing you have a complete backup - just not all in one spot.  But it depends on how the post processing fails too.  It is possible to get an incomplete backup.