Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Saturday, 29 January 2011 14:15 CST

waitz

I have created a profile for making backup of a web application which is offsite Joomla, but on the same server, and it has it's own mysql db.

1. Under "Include data to the backup" I added the application's db in the "Multiple databases definitions". Correct?

2. In files and directories exclusions, I excluded all Joomla folders and files - because they are not part of the application. Correct?

3. How do I exclude the whole Joomla db?

Edited by waitz on 2011-01-30 06:05 CST

Saturday, 29 January 2011 17:01 CST

nicholas

All of the steps are correct. In order to exclude all Joomla! tables, use the RegEx Database Table Exclusion and use the following regex:
[code]/^#__/i[code]
This will match all tables starting with your site's table name prefix, therefore excluding all Joomla! core tables and all Joomla! extension tables. Veni, vidi, vici :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Sunday, 30 January 2011 05:59 CST

waitz

Thanks Nicholas, it worked :-)

Since I added the other application's db in the "Multiple databases definitions" only in the new profile, I don't need to exclude this db in the other profiles that do the normal Joomla backup, do I?

Sunday, 30 January 2011 06:02 CST

nicholas

Exactly, no need to do that. All those settings are per profile :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Sunday, 30 January 2011 06:05 CST

waitz

Cool, I am very impressed by the pro backup. I just restored the non-joomla application with kickstart :-)

Sunday, 30 January 2011 06:10 CST

nicholas

He he! This is the way I designed it :) The backup engine is unaware of what kind of web application you are backing up. The only parts of Akeeba Backup which know about Joomla! are the interface (of course!), a small layer for interfacing the Joomla! API (used for implementing statistics and configuration settings) and the last step of the installer. Everything else is platform-agnostic so that you can use it to backup and restore pretty much anything. If you want to be really "mean", in the mean-as-in-oh-so-very-cool sense, you can use Akeeba Backup to backup and restore a Drupal, WordPress, phpBB3 or Coppermine installation without any hiccups ;)

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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