UNiTE, Remote CLI, eXtract Wizard

Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:16 CDT

MLaScala

Hello,

I made my first attempt at using UNiTE to test the software. This was performed on fresh install of Joomla 3.5.1 with no extensions other than Akeeba backup. Please advise, thanks

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Akeeba UNITE v.2.0.2 (2016-02-08)
Copyright (c)2009-2016 Akeeba Ltd

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
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Scanning /home/devj351/unite/engine/step/../../inbox for XML files...
Parsing /home/devj351/unite/engine/step/../../inbox/sample.xml
### Starting job #0 ###
Running validator
Running remote
Running s3
Running stealth
Writing a stealth .htaccess (direct access)
Running extract

Fatal error: Class 'AKUnarchiverKUP' not found in /home/devj351/unite/engine/extras/restore.php on line 6729

Thursday, 14 April 2016 06:27 CDT

nicholas

You are telling UNiTE to extract a file with the extension .kup which is not a valid format for extraction.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 19 April 2016 10:30 CDT

MLaScala

Thanks for your reply.

I performed a search on my server, and it didn't return any results for *.kup

This was a fresh joomla install of version 3.5.1 with absolutely nothing added other than the akeeba backup extension.

Tuesday, 19 April 2016 11:34 CDT

nicholas

Something in your XML file is wrong. Considering how the last three letters of the work "backup" is "kup" I suppose that you made a mistake in the filename to extract and have something that ends in the work "backup".

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:16 CDT

MLaScala

OK, thank you for the reply.

I think my issue is with the <package> option. I am trying to restore a backup file on a local server. This is my code:

<package>public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup</package>

Is Unite able to extract the most recent backup file in this directory?

Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:58 CDT

nicholas

As I said, you have misconfigured your XML file. The package tag is there to tell UNiTE which backup archive FILE to extract. It cannot accept a directory. Even the concept of the "latest" backup is not uniquely defined and leads to strange issues and tight coupling. To work around that we offer the possibility of a "remote" backup which is a simple way to say "take a backup of that site, copy it to UNiTE's inbox folder and restore it".

Other than that you could probably use some operating system specific scripting to find the "latest" backup (per your use case's definition of "latest" – don't assume that everybody means, e.g. the .jpa file with the newest creation stamp) and create an XML definition. UNIX-type shells like bash and the standard GNU toolchain come in handy for such automation.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Wednesday, 27 April 2016 14:08 CDT

MLaScala

I understand, thank you.

Can I use the <package> option for a "remote" backup locally? In other words, can I use the <remote> option of Unite to connect to a local website on the same server, run the backup, and then extract it?

Edited by MLaScala on 2016-04-27 14:16 CDT

Thursday, 28 April 2016 10:46 CDT

tampe125

Hello Maryann,

Nicholas is currently out of office so I'm taking over this ticket.
In theory yes, if the connection details are correct, you can download it from your local installation.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:20 CDT

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