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#34878 Extract folder from Akeeba backup

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Latest post by on Friday, 16 April 2021 20:17 CDT

Wednesday, 17 March 2021 05:21 CDT

Romuba

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Description of my issue: I have made a backup of a site (ended up with 4 files of around 2 Gigs each) and restored to a new server. All seems fine but the images folder is empty.

I have downloaded Akeeba eXtrac and run it on the backup file but cannot figure out where to find the images folder. The extracted files don't look recognisable. How can I find the images folder?

Wednesday, 17 March 2021 08:07 CDT

nicholas

You can use either Akeeba eXtract Wizard (obsolete) or Akeeba Kickstart on your local machine to extract the backup archive. This extracts everything that was backed up. The installation folder is the restoration script and your database dump (the files in the installation/sql). Everything else was whatever you told Akeeba Backup to back up, exactly as it was on your site at the time the backup was taken.

I can't tell you where your images are since I don't know how your site was organised and whether you had excluded the folder where your images are stored. Assuming that the folder you're looking for is called images and it wasn't excluded then you would see a folder called images extracted on your computer.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Friday, 16 April 2021 20:17 CDT

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Edited by on 2021-04-16 20:17 CDT

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