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#41016 Support for Importing Backups from Non-Amazon S3 Providers in Kickstart Pro

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Kickstart version
8.0.6

Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 21 August 2024 01:08 CDT

Tuesday, 20 August 2024 10:16 CDT

fachwerkmedia

I recently tried to use Kickstart Pro to import a backup from an S3-compatible storage provider. Unfortunately, it seems that Kickstart Pro currently only supports importing backups from Amazon S3, and not from other S3-compatible providers.

This is a bit of a limitation, especially considering that Akeeba Backup itself supports backups to various S3-compatible providers. It would be great if Kickstart Pro could also extend its import functionality to include these providers.

Could you please consider adding support for importing backups from S3-compatible providers (same like in Akeeba Backup) in a future update? This feature would significantly enhance the flexibility and usability of Kickstart Pro.

Thanks for your attention to this matter!
Mano

Wednesday, 21 August 2024 01:08 CDT

nicholas

Unfortunately, that's not entirely practical. Kickstart is a single file application. The S3 library we use for our other software consists of 28 files. It would take a lot of work to make it into a single file.

The only practical way this could happen is if Kickstart Professional was a .phar file. However, most web servers I have seen do not allow you to "run" .phar files.

If I find a workaround to that, I will of course provide this feature. But, for now, there's not much that can be done. The technology exists in PHP, but is deliberately disabled on commercial hosting.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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