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#14641 is it possible recover olnly the content of one site from a backup file?

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 12 January 2013 03:14 CST

Friday, 11 January 2013 09:53 CST

bart1959

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? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.8)
PHP version:5.3
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Akeeba Backup version which took the backup: (3.6.10)
Kickstart version used to extract the backup: (unknown)

Description of my issue:

Hi, I have a jpa file of an older version of a site... can I extract only the content from this file without reinstalling the Whole site?

TkS

 

Friday, 11 January 2013 10:15 CST

nicholas

You have to define content :) Normally, the content of the site is both database records (e.g. articles) and files (e.g. images). If you want to restore database records of any number of tables you have to restore the entire site. This has to do with the way ACLs work in Joomla! and how everything ends up being connected in the #__assets table.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Saturday, 12 January 2013 02:13 CST

bart1959

I mean articles.. thank you for the quick response... great job!

 

Saturday, 12 January 2013 03:14 CST

nicholas

Restoring articles is only possible if you have not deleted articles and categories in the meantime. In this case you can restore only the #__content table manually, following pretty much the steps in the emergency manual restoration. Please bear in mind that if you have deleted any articles or categories you'll end up with something unusable and most likely unfixable.

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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