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#40335 Quota not working

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
4.4.3
PHP version
8.1.12
Akeeba Backup version
9.8.5

Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 22 February 2024 09:43 CST

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Hello,

in the post https://www.akeeba.com/support/akeeba-solo/34232:incremental-backups-and-quota-management-2.html#p189192 you write:

Create one backup profile that is a full site backup. Set up count quotas and set the quota count to one. Schedule this backup profile to run on the 1st of every month. You also need to manually run this backup after updating Joomla and its extensions.

Create a second backup profile of the Incremental Backup type. Set up count quotas for it and set the quota count to 30 (each month has up to 30 days but we don't take a backup on the 1st of each month, therefore we need up to 30 backups). Schedule this backup profile to run every day except the 1st of each month. Advanced mod: you can exclude database tables which have temporary data or infrequently modified data you can afford to lose (that's very site specific so I can't really guide you there).

I configured everything like this but weekly. I do a full backup on sunday (quota 3) and a backup every day from monday to saturday (quota 18). So i can go back 2-3 weeks and don't have to restore so much backups, because of the full backup every sunday.

Everything works fine so far.

BUT: the old backups aren't deleted automatically.

Can you help?

Thanks a lot!

Regards, Matt

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

My instructions were based on the assumption you are doing a daily backup.

The full backup on Sunday with a quota count of 3 will by default keep the previous 3 backups PLUS your latest backup = 4 backups.

The daily backup with quota 18 would keep the daily backups from the last 3 weeks, PLUS the very latest backup.

Another thing to note is that remotely stored backup archives will not be deleted unless you also check the box to apply remote quotas.

Finally, remember that the quota settings remove backup archives, not backup records. These remain in the Manage Backups page but show up with a status of Obsolete.

Does any of that explain better what you are currently seeing?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Thanks for the quick answer, Nicholas!!

I didn't know about the box to apply remote quotas. 

I only found the box in the attachment but that's not the right on, I guess.

Where can I find it?

Thank you!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

That's the one you highlighted in your screenshot: Enable Remote Files Quotas. Set it to Yes. Note that currently it's set to No (Nein). I know that the options switcher in Joomla! is a bit weird looking. The selected option is the one with the filled-in background.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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