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#16094 Unite problems with remote backups and extra files

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 18 May 2013 04:36 CDT

siwaysas
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Joomla! version: 2.5.8
PHP version: 5.3.3
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Akeeba eXtract Wizard / Remote CLI / SiteDiff version: Unite version 1.1

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Description of my issue:

Probleme 1 : remote option

I worked a first time with Unite, and had a problem, that I do not have anymore (see ticket : #13609).

But now I did more deep tests and I experienced new problems :

The remote option is not making any effects.

I looked into the PHP execution, and I saw that in the file : engine/remote.php there is this instuction :
$packageFrom = $this->siteDef['siteInfo']['packageFrom'];
but it is always empty
So when it comes to the remote test ($packageFrom != 'remote') it is always true, and it jumps to the postrun section.

If I "force" in the code the value of $packageFrom to "remote", I have then an error :
PHP Fatal error: Class 'RemoteException' not found in /home/nicolas/Bureau/utils/akeeba_unite/engine/util/exception/body.php on line 9

I found a way to go over this problem while doing a shell scrip that first execute a remoteCli and then a unite extraction.

Probleme 2 : extra files
This is really a minor problem but it took me some time as I tried with those type of files :)
With some file extensions (sql, txt) the extraction creat a symlink with the content of the file. And png files are not restored.
But then I tried : php, xml, jpg files are extracted OK.

Conclusion :
I'an not blocked by one or other problem now, but I wanted to report it. Please tell me if I can do some more testing for you.


Thanks for your work,
I enjoyed the discussions we had on JDay France,
Best regards,
Nicolas de La Fortelle, SiWay

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Sorry for the very late reply, the issue was a little more complicated than I anticipated. I published UNiTE 1.2 today which addresses this issue.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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