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#8799 20 meg local file being generated each backup, but using Amazon s3

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 03 February 2011 17:26 CST

Thursday, 03 February 2011 11:58 CST

user12977
I have Amazon S3 storage set up, and the backup files are going there successfully. I also have the option checked off to delete archive after processing.
In the administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup backup of each site, I'm getting a 20 meg file stored there for each backup - example - 20971520 Jan 20 20:16 site-www.sitename.com-20110120-201503.j01

What are these files? Can I delete them? And can I prevent them from being generated and not deleted for each backup?

joomla 1.5.22. was running akeeba 3.2.b4, upgraded to 3.2 today.

Thanks,
Tamar

Thursday, 03 February 2011 17:26 CST

nicholas
There is a very easy way to solve this (so easy you wouldn't believe it). Go to the Akeeba Backup Configuration page, click on the "Configure..." button next to the Archiver Engine and set the Part Size for Split Archives to 0. Yes, I really do mean create one big backup archive! Akeeba Backup 3.2.b1 and later support multi-part S3 uploads. The big archive will be uploaded in 5Mb chunks to S3. This will allow the transfer to complete without timeouts and, at the same time, ensures that the archive will be deleted after transfer without leaving leftovers behind.

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