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#8923 Back up File folder

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:01 CDT

Tuesday, 12 July 2011 09:49 CDT

user29002
Hi...
When Akeeba does it's back up process, does it store all the backup files in a specific folder?

If so, I don't want file to get too large and would like to clean it out occasionally.

Basically, my question is where do all the back up files reside?

thanks
Nic

Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:01 CDT

nicholas
Hi Nic!

All Akeeba Backup backup archives are stored in the Output Directory, as set in the Configuration page. By default, that is administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup.

When you use a post-processing engine (like Upload to Amazon S3), there is an option to automatically remove the backup archives after they are transferred. You can also achieve the same thing by using the quota settings in Akeeba Backup. Using either (or both) of those methods you can be sure that the backup directory will never grow too big, as Akeeba Backup will clean it up automatically. I am a developer; by definition, I am lazy; so I have automated this repetitive task ;)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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