Support

Read the related troubleshooters? Yes
Searched the tickets? Yes
Read the documentation? No manual!?
Joomla! version: 1.5.23 stable
PHP version: 5.3.10
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: Heart
SiteDiff version: 3.1(Stable)
Akeeba BackupPro version used: 3.1
Win7 64bit Ultimate

I have two Akeeba backups I need to compare, they are in jpa format. SiteDiff fails to complete because of a bad directory name that somehow got into the system. At some unknown point I ended up with a directory named "http:" in my administrator directory. SiteDiff borks at this and unlike Akeeba eXtract Wizard, it doesn't have an option to ignore errors so it cannot complete.

I appreciate my version of Akeeba Backup Pro is old (I've just upgraded) but that doesn't help me with my old backups. Maybe you've since fixed the problem that AkeebaBackup could archive a file containing a colon but it is no help to my archives that I need to compare?

I have some other backups that were done via my host's system and they somehow managed to convert the colon in to an underscore which partially helps me but I still cannot do a compare on the two Akeeba archives.

Does Akeeba Backup now do checks for illegal characters in directory and file structures, or maybe a simple utility could be devised to do such a thing in case of issues like mine? I have no idea how that http: directory got in there but I can only assume it was some drag and drop or cut and paste error at some unknown point.

Obviously, if you can think of a way for me to compare the two backups I would be most grateful.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for that reply and I'm glad there's a workaround.

As to my further related question, does the current version of Akeeba Backup help prevent this kind of problem by testing for potentially problematic/illegal characters?

Or maybe there is a good utility out there that can check through a site for file or directory naming problems?

Many thanks. My stupidity for not realising it was yet again a Windows limitation!

Am I correct in thinking that illegal character problems can't happen when exclusively working locally (e.g. via Kickstart) in things like WAMP or XAMPP?

Does anyone know a method to cross-check file and directory names from a live site are exactly the same as an unarchived copy within the Windows structure?