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#12651 How to recover one directory

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:01 CDT

Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:43 CDT

user63906
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? No
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: 1.5.23
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (Linux)
Akeeba Backup version which took the backup: (Akeeba Backup 3.0.b2 (2010-04-27))
Kickstart version used to extract the backup: (unknown)

Description of my issue:
Please let me know, if will be wise to upgrade Akeeba to the latest Prof. version, before atempting to extract directory and files, without harming the backup files.
Thanks and regards
Saverio

Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:20 CDT

nicholas
Backups are essentially snapshots of your time frozen in time. The version of the compoonent you intall after they are taken is irrelevant. It does not modify existing backups. The ability to extract a backup only dedpends on the backup, how you download/upload it and how you extract it. The backup component is not part of this process. So, no, upgrading Akeeba Backup will not break your existing backups; it will not touch them at all.

Why I do not understand is how that relates to the ticket's title?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:31 CDT

user63906
Hi Nicholas,
Thanks a lot.
Yes, you are right. The title does not relate to the question. This is because I firts wrote the title, but a minute later, I decided to download the Prof version and find by myself how to extract a directory, and forgot to change the title .. sorry about that.
Thanks again and best regards
Saverio

Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:01 CDT

nicholas
Oh, OK, no problem, just wanted to make sure I am not answering the wrong question :) You're welcome!

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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