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#41787 Verify backup file integrity via CLI (not status)

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
5.2.5
PHP version
8.2.28
Akeeba Backup version
10.0.3

Latest post by tampe125 on Thursday, 03 April 2025 04:40 CDT

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Hello,

We would like to use automated CLI commands to 1) select backups matching certain criteria (which should be possible using a combination of akeeba:backup:list parameters and some further filtering)

and the real goal is 2) to run a health check i.e. ensure we can verify the integrity of the backup file, and check if its contents can actually be read  & properly processed.

The possible options would be either by main file path or by id.

 

IIUC, akeeba:backup:check is only looking at status.

Feel free to suggest standalone tools like kickstart or similar if there are better solutions.

If it could be avoided, we'd rather not have to extract the archive contents to the filesystem (because of concerns like free space and quota). Not sure about how to handle remote backup fetching as we do not use this feature.

 

 

tampe125
Akeeba Staff

Hello,

the only way to be extra sure if the backup archive is healthy is to extract them. You can either use kickstart.php from CLI to extract it or you can use Akeeba UNiTE to automate the process to download and restore the archive on another server, without impacting your space quotas on the main domain.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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