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#9185 Need an easy way to download pack backup files to computer?

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:57 CST

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 12:10 CST

Chacapamac
Last version to date.

I just want and administrator to be able to download the pack files to his computer for safe backup on CD/DVD.

I really don’t want to use an ftp client — to complex for that admin...

What to do

I don’t see any way to do that in the core version...

If it’s not there, this should be implemented as it is a major way to securise the backups —± Even a way to automatise the transfert will be great....


Maybe I miss something?

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 12:12 CST

nicholas
You miss the obvious method. Go to Administer Backup Files. Next to each backup, on the right hand side, there are a few links named "Part 00", "Part 01" and so on. Click on it to download the file. Not recommended, but it should work on most browsers!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Wednesday, 30 November 2011 12:19 CST

Chacapamac
Thanks, I knew you will think at that...
I always use ftp - but want to make it easy for non web savy user...

I have

Transférer l'archive (as link)
()Fichier local : Processco-20111130.jpa
Partie 00 ( as Link)

What is the difference between the Transférer l'archive link and the Partie 00

Not recommended ?
Because it pass by php?

Installation Restore point are not part of the core edition anymore?

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 12:29 CST

nicholas
Why don't you just click on the link or read the documentation? ;)

The "Transfer your archive" link allows you to upload the archive from your server to the remote storage (Amazon S3, DropBox, CloudFiles, ...) you have configured in this backup profile.

The "Part 00" link allows you to download the archive file from your server to your local PC.

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!

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 13:37 CST

Chacapamac
Thanks

Restore points are not part of the core anymore?

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 13:48 CST

nicholas
Since Akeeba Backup Core 3.3.5 they are not. It looks like most people demanded free support with their free software and called me various not so nice things in their emails when I told them that they can either read the documentation for free or pay 7.79 to request support for an issue already solved in the documentation. Therefore, I simply removed the feature.

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!

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 14:33 CST

Chacapamac
Restore point still exist on the pro version?

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 14:34 CST

nicholas
Yes, of course. They were buggy, though, that's why I release a new version a couple of hours ago ;)

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!

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 14:59 CST

Chacapamac
Oups I just make a n update and now I get 
[111130 15:56:45] PHP WARNING on line 290 in file <root>/administrator/components/com_akeeba/akeeba/configuration.php:
[111130 15:56:45] opendir(<root>/administrator/components/com_akeeba/akeeba/engines/writer) [&lt;a href=&#039;function.opendir&#039;&gt;function.opendir&lt;/a&gt;]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:31 CST

Chacapamac
Yep no configuration.php there

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:32 CST

Chacapamac
yep it}s there???

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:57 CST

nicholas
Don't worry, this warning message is normal. I just forgot to turn off the developer's debugging mode before making the release :s

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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