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#34445 Backup a Joomla Component - Ideas on how we can achieve this

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Latest post by on Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:17 CST

Thursday, 28 January 2021 08:59 CST

dunwin

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Description of my issue:

We run daily backups on our full Joomla system. However, we have one very important component our online event booking system. If we have problem say during the day, rolling back to our nightly backup is not the best way as we would then have to try and check all the bookings made between the last backup and the time of the issue. What we would like to do is take a backup of just the component every 30 mins to reduce the time to get the booking system back to the state before the issue

One way I thought was to just to back up all the DB tables associated with the component, which is easy to set up in Akeeba. But I am wondering what other files might I have to backup. Should I also backup all the component files as well. 

Any ideas from anyone who has tried to do this would be appreciated.

 David Unwin - London UK

Thursday, 28 January 2021 10:38 CST

tampe125

Hello,

thing is: does this component have any item level permission? I mean there are any fine-tuning permissions at item level (for example category, hotel etc etc).

That's the whole tricky thing, since in that case every item will have a to the #__assets table in Joomla core, the one that track all the permissions for the whole site. In that case, I'd strongly suggest to avoid backing up only the component itself, since you could end up corrupting the permissions for the whole site, leaving you with a broken site.

You can, however, create database backups for the whole site, not only the component. You will have larger backups (but not very much, unless you have a huge website), but you should be on the safe side

Davide Tampellini

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Thursday, 28 January 2021 10:59 CST

dunwin

Hi Davide,

Thank you for that information, very useful and things I would not think about. I will try some tests on backing up the whole Data Base to see how long it takes.

At the moment due to Covid-19 we have not opened up the booking system so we don't have any bookings but at least I will get an idea of the time difference between our full back up and just the database back up.

 David Unwin - London UK

Friday, 29 January 2021 02:24 CST

tampe125

You're welcome!

Let me know if you need further assistance

Davide Tampellini

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Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:17 CST

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