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#34137 SITENAME not added on backup name - suggestion

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Latest post by on Friday, 01 January 2021 20:17 CST

Monday, 30 November 2020 21:20 CST

joomleb

Hi guys,

Joomla Site Name: "507 Panamá"
Akkeba Backup Pro > Configuration > Backup Archive Name: [DATE]-[TIME]-[SITENAME]
Backup saved on Dropbox as: 20180516-172230-.jpa

The SITENAME is missing.

Now, if from  #29673 may 2018 the PHP situation is not changed and the workaround is still to just fill manually the Site name.

Please, Can you consider, if viable by Akeeba Backup, to automatically replace Site Name accented letters (the ones that PHP doesn't seem to like) with normal letters into Backup Archive Name when [SITENAME] is called ?

Many Thanks for your attention!

Tuesday, 01 December 2020 02:32 CST

nicholas

Joomla and PHP have no problem with accented or international characters. They use UTF-8 under the hood.

The problem is we were trying to replace some characters which were invalid in the context of Windows filenames from the site name. Unfortunately, this code was written in 2012 when PHP support for Unicode was a bit iffy at best. The way it works ends up replacing the site name with a single dash. This code should have been revised last January when we dropped support form PHP 5.3.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will address it in version 7.5.0 scheduled for release between Christmas and New Year's.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 01 December 2020 10:10 CST

joomleb

HI Nicholas, 

as always, many thank you for present us valuable information, I'm staying tuned...

Friday, 01 January 2021 20:17 CST

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