Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Monday, 30 August 2010 19:45 CDT

user8259

Greetings,
Forgive me if this is explained elsewhere in detail, but...

Id like to find a way to back up ONLY my users, and the articles. I'm attempting to take my current site back to a "barebones" state as far as modules and such, but still have the users, and articles.

Any help, or links to a solution would be greatly appreciated.

Geolie

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 06:45 CDT

nicholas

This is extremely tricky, but perfectly possible with Akeeba Backup. You simply have to exclude everything you don't want to backup. This means excluding non-core components, modules, plugins and template directories and their database tables, as well as the contents of all database tables except what you want to keep.

If I may ask, why are you willing to subject yourself to such great pain to end up with a site which you have to rebuild anyway? The premise of taking daily backups is that if you screw the brains out of your site one day, you can roll back to its backup. Even better, before trying something on the live site, do this:
- Take a backup
- Restore on a local server
- Test it locally and keep notes of what you did
- If it works, take another backup
- Perform the change on the live site based on your notes
- If it doesn't work, restore the backup, repeat from start
- If it works, delete the previous two backups and take a new backup

This method has served as perfectly for three years :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 06:49 CDT

user8259

The reason is, Im moving the site to be base on Jomsocial. At the moment, the collection of modules, plugins and components Ive added to meet the same functionality that Ill be able to fulfill with jomsocial is pretty massive. My idea was to break the site down to bare bones, and then implement the jomsocial.

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 08:50 CDT

nicholas

Take a backup. Uninstall everything whose functionality is going to replaced by JomSocial. Install JomSocial. Configure it to your liking. Done.

The easy way to do something is the best way to do it :)

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!

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 08:53 CDT

user8259

Right...well i didnt know how difficult it would be to just save the users and articles...it may have been some simple few click process...and then easier. But I didnt know the process. :)
I'm working on removing everything on a local install...and putting up jomsocial.
Thank you as always for your quick help.

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