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#34346 Your log file is 7,387.07 Mb big.

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Latest post by ke-communication on Wednesday, 13 January 2021 05:22 CST

ke-communication

Description of my issue:

BackUp does not finish. It stalls during "backing up files". When I want to open the log,I get the message:

Your log file is 7,387.07 Mb big. Trying to display it in the browser may crash the browser or cause a timeout error on your server. Please use the Download Log button above to download the log file to your computer instead. You can open and read the log with any plain text editor.

 

Is this the Akeeba Log file? If so, why is it so large? Can I delete it? How do I stop the log from getting so large?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

This would happen if you have symlinks in your site and have enabled the Dereference Symlinks options, causing a loop.

For example, if your site is hosted in /home/user/public_html and you have a symlink /home/user/public_html/foo/bar pointing to ../foo or /home/user/public_html and you're dereferencing symlinks you are creating an infinite loop. /home/user/public_html/foo/bar is now being seen as a real directory which contains the symlink bar (full path /home/user/public_html/foo/bar/bar). Since this points back to the foo directory, it's seen as a real directory which contains the symlink bar (full path /home/user/public_html/foo/bar/bar) which points to path /home/user/public_html/foo. This looping reference will grow infinitely, your backup will never end and your log file will be gigantic.

Another reason would be an exorbitantly large file, in the order of several tens of Gigabytes, which requires thousands upon thousand of steps to back up — by default, large files are read in chunks of 1MB.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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ke-communication

Hi,

it seems the issue is resolved. The one thing I tried was to uncheck "Site root override" in the configuration.
I did not check it myself, I only ran the configuration wizard!

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