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Latest post by tampe125 on Friday, 05 November 2021 05:48 CDT
Hi Overthere,
I'm using a weekly automated frontend backup with All-Inkl shared hosting.
There's a huge data directory which has been backupped until now to one ~13 GB zip-file.
The last backupjob as of tonight broke the archive into chunks of 2GB and I dont' know wether it's a new default in Akeeba Backup or sth the hoster did.
Do you have any idea what's goin' on?
Thx in advance,
Ralf
Hello,
that's the expected behavior. If your backup gets larger than a certain threshold, Akeeba Backup will start to create multi-part archives.
You can set a custom size (for example 10Mb, 500Mb or 1Gb), but Akeeba Backup will always break your archive if it gets larger than 2Gb. This is a technical requirement, otherwise the size of the backup will get "too large" and PHP would not fit its size within an integer variable.
So what you're seeing is the expected behavior. I suspect the previous large folder was created in another way, maybe from command line, since Akeeba Backup is imposing the 2Gb limit since from the beginning.
Davide Tampellini
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Thx for the clarification, but stranger every minute :-)
It has been running for years now in the same fashion without any recent change from my side :-)
Is there any way to get it back to my "default" with one large file?
No, actually it should never create that big files. If that happened, it means it was a bug.
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