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#8941 Backing up different component areas in a busy site

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 04:28 CDT

sandstorm871
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes - Akeeba Backup, leads me to "any other question"
Have I searched the forum before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Akeebe Backup User guide
Joomla! version: 1.5.23
PHP version: 5.2.17
MySQL version: 5.0.92 community
Host: Dedicated
Akeeba Backup version: 3.3.b1

Description of my issue:


I think I may just need a nod of reassurance.


I have Akeeba backup working well on many sites, making use of Cron Job back up, back ups to dropbox, s3, etc.

I have a busy site that does a full back up daily at0500, but now want extra additional backups of certain busy components, namely Agora, Virtuemart & K2

I am correct in thinking that I can set up a new back up profile, maybe name it Virtuemart and then via the exclude data from backup section, literally exclude all files and DB tables that dont relate to virtuemart.

Is there no way that I can select files and DB table to INCLUDE rather than exclude, as this would be a little less time consuming

Then guessing I'd follow the same idea for a K2 backup and an Agora backup?

Assuming this is correct I can then also create another CRON job to back these up at there specific times too?

Thanks in advance,

Andy

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Your assumptions are 100% correct. You can create extra profiles and exclude everything you don't need to be backed up. There is no way to go to an include-only policy. So, yes, you need to create a new profile for each component you want to be backed up and exclude everything except the files and db tables of the particular component.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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sandstorm871
NP

The include only question had to be asked, just incase I was missing something simple!

Still simple just take a few extra minutes.

Thanks as always,

Andy

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• 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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