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#33296 eXtract Wizard replacement or command-line tool

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Latest post by on Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:17 CDT

Tuesday, 23 June 2020 07:20 CDT

dwreski

Hi, over the last few days, the backup for my site has more than doubled. I'd like to find out what's in the archive without having to restore it to a site. How can I do this? How can I look inside the JPA archive without having to extract it?

Do I need to switch to using ZIP, then view it the next day?

​-rw-r--r-- 1 idlweb idlweb 2.0G Jun 23 03:31 site-linuxsecurity.com-20200623-041007-yU0fT58EO5kNtzXs.j01
-rw-rw-rw- 1 idlweb idlweb 450M Jun 23 03:31 site-linuxsecurity.com-20200623-041007-yU0fT58EO5kNtzXs.jpa
-rw-rw-rw- 1 idlweb idlweb 2.0G Jun 23 03:29 site-linuxsecurity.com-20200623-041007-yU0fT58EO5kNtzXs.j03
-rw-rw-rw- 1 idlweb idlweb 2.0G Jun 23 03:24 site-linuxsecurity.com-20200623-041007-yU0fT58EO5kNtzXs.j02

Perhaps I should enable logging so it records every file as it is being backed up?

 

Tuesday, 23 June 2020 07:56 CDT

tampe125

Hello,

you can use Kickstart from CLI to extract your JPA archive.

I'd strongly suggest you against the usage of ZIP archives, since they are more resource intensive during the backup.

If you want to understand why your backup files become larger, I'd suggest you to extract the two archives (smaller and larger ones), then compare both directories with a diff tools, such a WinDiff.
It will make spotting differences very easy.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:17 CDT

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