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#42044 I cannot find the backup files

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
4.4.13
PHP version
8.3.22
Akeeba Backup version
I don't know

Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 25 June 2025 01:50 CDT

ralfroppelt

I first made a backup of the site. Then I updated the joomla version and then I tried to install various updates, including ItcsMatomo. Then in the backend there was only the information: An error has occurred! 0 Class ITCS\Plugin\System\ItcsMatomo\Extension\ItcsMatomo not found.

I then searched for the backup file I had previously made on the server. Unfortunately, the backup folder is empty as described in the instructions. This is the English version, the same page is also available in German, I did the same yesterday, there I find the last backup files in the described directory. How can something like this happen that the files have disappeared?

 

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The ticket information has been edited by Susanne Roppelt (ralfroppelt).

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

The default backup output directory is administrator/components/com_akeebabackup/backup.

You are able to change that on each backup profile. If you have changed that, the backups will be stored in the folder you specified.

Since you have the Professional version, it is also possible to have your backups uploaded to remote storage of your choice. If you did that, the default behavior is to only keep the backup archives in the remote storage, not your site.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

ralfroppelt

Hello Nicholas,

I have not made any changes to the directory, it is the same as in the German version. Unfortunately, the directory you specified is empty, there are only 5 files in it, nothing else. How can I find the backups? They are also quite large.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

From the very beginning, Akeeba Backup and its predecessor JoomlaPack were designed to be absolutely private. You own your own data. We do not have access to your backups. We do not know how you've set up your backups. We do not know when you take backups. We do not know where you are storing your backups. We do not even know which sites you are using our software on. If anyone comes to us with a warrant or court order, all we can tell them is whether you're a client (if they give us an email address which matches our records) and when you downloaded our software, which is totally useless information. Nobody can compel us to give any information on you or your sites because we simply don't collect this information. We were doing what GDPR calls "data minimisation" long before GDPR was even a draft.

The downside to making an absolutely private backup solution that you manage yourself on your own sites is that we cannot answer the kind of questions you are asking. You are asking me to give you information we cannot have, should never have, and do not collect.

At best I can give you a workaround to find that information yourself.

Delete the folder plugins/system/matomo which, based on your error message, is what is throwing the error on your site. This would allow you to access your site's backend. Go to Akeeba Backup, Manage Backups. Check where the backups are; it tells you there. Make a note of that. Do that for all sites you are managing.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 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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