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Hello

I succeeded in restoring the nmh-j3.4php5.3 version
The person gave me 2 files
the first without the media which is 3 jpa for a total of 4.5go
the zipped media.zip file which is also 4.5go
I had a problem with the media.zip file which after restoration broke the site!
Here's what I did
restore the site back and front-end
rename the media directory => mediaEx then move elsewhere
dezip media directory => backoffice and navigation problem

The restored site works fine without unzipping the media.zip file with images.
Any idea how to find the difference? or if it's a problem? as part of a migration test?

Regards

Hello
Thank you it worked well :-)
I don't know if it's faster to go through a zip but it might be better to make 2 different akeeba profiles:
a small one with the site minus the media
a bigger one just with the media

Regards

re

For a site hosted on a shared server (which I have to live with), what values would you recommend to reduce the backup time for a site that is several GB in size?
At the moment, it crashes after an hour!

The host tells me that it's possible to add these directives to the .htacces file of the site that has the heavy backup plugin, which will allow you to allocate more generous values than are possible in the N0C graphical interface. He also recommends setting good values for the following parameters
php_value memory_limit XXG
php_value post_max_size XXG
php_value upload_max_filesize XXG
php_value max_input_time XXX
php_value max_execution_time XXX

in the php environment, I set
memory_limit, post_max_size and upload_max_filesize =1g

regards

HI again

Thank you for these clarifications; to the host's credit, he doesn't know everything you do to enable backups (or restorations) of large directories of site files.
I operate from my firefox at home from the backoffice; I understand that I have to disable standby (which I didn't see) and leave the tab in the foreground (which I wasn't doing because I was browsing elsewhere). So there's not much I can do and wait 1 hour if I have to?

For the 1st question, please answer me too :
I don't know if it's faster to go through a zip but it might be better to make 2 different akeeba profiles:
1/ a small one with the site minus the media
2/ a bigger one just with the media

Regards

Hello

Thank you for this precise information.

I will do that. It's true that I have several firefox profiles with dozens of tabs. I will think about the cron but if not, last question, for in general, is it better that I use Brave? or open a firefox profile with only the backup tab?

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Hi

I think there's a deeper problem.
I run the backup and I get the message that I have a space problem. Maybe it's because akeeba is trying to save to the 2nd jpa that exists.
I deleted the old backup but I have the same problem.
I'm attaching the log file if it's clearer for you? and an image because I find that the 2 files don't have the same rights!

Regards

 

I'm sorry but I don't seem to have these settings on this old akeeba 4.7.7 version that I'm obliged to use to start this migration/update to php 5.3.

Regards

 

The ticket information has been edited by herve D (HDcms).

Hi

In fact I had asked them to take out a pro license but I didn't check a few months later that they had taken out the core version. I ask them to buy a license.

In the meantime, I'm sorry again but as it can take more than an hour and ... I prefer to fine-tune the settings with you, especially as
a) I'm a planete hoster, I'm used to NOC storage, but on more recent versions, I'm obliged to set
"Bucket access" = path access legacy and I don't see it in the settings for akeeba version 4.7.7?
b) I didn't see the 500 MB limit setting?
c) if you see other parameters to correct, can you tell me by circling the parameter on the image or by telling me the category?

thanks in advance

HI

If I'd known, I wouldn't have agreed to migrate this old site to joomla 5.
I'm used to joomla5 sites, j!4 or j!3.

Another thing that's causing this to fail is that I uploaded an old profile where I had media exclusions as shown in the image. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore :-(

I'm confused and if I understand correctly I have to redo this too!?

It's the same site, so if I remember correctly (rarely done) I need to uncheck the images column and the media/k2 subdirectory as seen in https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/akeeba-backup-joomla/exclude-data-from-backup.html. Ok?

Hi again

Yes, it's horrible. A redesign project that started 2 years ago!
I had a problem configuring the exclusions.  I've now got back to the fact that you first have to go into the profile and then out of it before configuring them in the extensions tab. It was a bit complicated for me.

a) Now I see that I've been stuck for 30 minutes on the backup of /home/XXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/media/k2/items/cache
Can I exclude it from my backup of media files?

b) is there a way to view the file directory tree of a jpa backup to see if anything is missing?

regards

a)

Here is the size occupied on the site
10G /home/XXXXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/
4.3G /home/XXXXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/images
5.3G /home/XXXXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/media
4.8G /home/XXXXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/media/k2
2.2G /home/XXXXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/media/k2/items/cache

After nearly 2 days of finding the right akeeba settings, I'd like to ask you if it would be possible to zip
4.3G /home/XXXXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/images
4.8G /home/XXXXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/media/k2 (excluding 2.2G /home/XXXXX/nmh-j3.4php5.3/media/k2/items/cache)?

And make a single profile excluding these 2 very large directories?

 

Hi

I'm taking the liberty of continuing this thread because I'm still encountering a difficulty in the long road of migrating from a j!3.4 site to j!5.3 !!
I think I've created the right profile by excluding the 2 large directories and that I have enough space.
However, when I look at the log, I see that it goes into the k2 excluded directory and it doesn't work.
Can you think of a reason?

Regards

 

No  file !!

log file

Hi again

Thanks

Sorry, you're absolutely right. I'd already done that (because I do everything with the host's explorer, which isn't easy) on the previous site but forgot to do it on this site.
I have to say that I do this incrementally
1 directory = 1 joomla version

I prefer to leave this thread open as I'm now juggling between joomla versions, akeeba, php environment ...

Regards

Hello

I'm continuing this work which requires me to repeat all these long steps because I've seen problems on higher versions of the jooomla site!

I start again on the joomla 3.4 site by deleting extensions, then I want to import it on the next site in joomla 3.6.5.
The archive is ~100 MB in size and I'm not touching the images and medias/k2 directories. I'd like to save time and avoid restarting with a complete archive + 2 large zip files.

When restoring the joomla 3.4 site to the joomla 3.6.5 site, I get the error 

 

The extraction has failed

Extraction of the backup archive has failed.
The last error message was:

Invalid header in archive file, part 0, offset 19

 What's the best, quickest way?
Regards

Hi

I had my suspicions, but I was hoping that a shorter route would be possible. This is the 3rd time I've done the cycle again because on the previous occasions I didn't have the right information or the right person and I deleted extensions that were used in "hidden places" :-(
I had to find forks like for jmootips, vianora slider or new reservation extensions.
I managed to make direct jumps to 3.10.12 or 5.2, maybe by luck!

I'm perfectly aware that 13 years is a long time. After all, I'm not the decision-maker and it's a big joomla intranet that has the merit of having worked well
On the other hand, I hope that my experience will serve me or others to charge a fair price, it's a huge, fine and long job indeed.

Thank you and thank you again for your support
Regards

Hi again

As you said, I'm back in a new repertoire. When restoring the database, I get this message

I've never had this before :-( during my 2 previous restore scyles.

ErrNo #1347
'evjtvkbd_nmh-j365.V_atlas_resaNMH_veloAuto' is not of type 'VIEW'
SQL=CREATE OR REPLACE ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED VIEW `V_atlas_resaNMH_veloAuto` AS select `res`.`id_resources` AS `id`,`res`.`name` AS `name`,`cat`.`name` AS `categorie`,`req`.`name` AS `Nom`,`req`.`startdate` AS `startdate`,`req`.`starttime` AS `starttime`,`req`.`enddate` AS `enddate`,`req`.`endtime` AS `endtime`,concat(`req`.`startdate`,' ',`req`.`starttime`) AS `datetime_debut`,concat(`req`.`enddate`,' ',`req`.`endtime`) AS `datetime_fin` from ((`joom34_sv_bookpro3_requests` `req` join `joom34_sv_bookpro3_resources` `res`) join `joom34_sv_bookpro3_categories` `cat`) where `req`.`request_status` = 'accepted' and `req`.`resource` = `res`.`id_resources` and `res`.`published` = 1 and `cat`.`id_categories` = `res`.`category_id` and `cat`.`id_categories` in (7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,21,22,19,20,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36)
Texte de la requête Raw :

CREATE OR REPLACE ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED VIEW `V_atlas_resaNMH_veloAuto` AS select `res`.`id_resources` AS `id`,`res`.`name` AS `name`,`cat`.`name` AS `categorie`,`req`.`name` AS `Nom`,`req`.`startdate` AS `startdate`,`req`.`starttime` AS `starttime`,`req`.`enddate` AS `enddate`,`req`.`endtime` AS `endtime`,concat(`req`.`startdate`,' ',`req`.`starttime`) AS `datetime_debut`,concat(`req`.`enddate`,' ',`req`.`endtime`) AS `datetime_fin` from ((`#__sv_bookpro3_requests` `req` join `#__sv_bookpro3_resources` `res`) join `#__sv_bookpro3_categories` `cat`) where `req`.`request_status` = 'accepted' and `req`.`resource` = `res`.`id_resources` and `res`.`published` = 1 and `cat`.`id_categories` = `res`.`category_id` and `cat`.`id_categories` in (7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,21,22,19,20,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36)

See the settings in pictures
Regards

Hi again
I've restarted the restore by setting: delete database and setting a new prefix "joom365_"
I get the same error 
I've misunderstood.?
regards

re

It seems that the drop button didn't work.
I had to manually delete all the tables
I continue

Hello
No, that wasn't it, but I cleaned up and I'm continuing to do so.
Regards