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#22922 How to restore from dropbox?

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 08 July 2015 04:59 CDT

Tuesday, 07 July 2015 03:48 CDT

user1042
I'm trying to restor from Dropbox,
And I'm getting this error-

Do not close this window or navigate to another page while the archive extraction is in progress
The extraction has failed

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

The file is not a JPA archive

Tuesday, 07 July 2015 03:54 CDT

nicholas
First you need to download the backup archive back to your server. Go to the Manage Backups page and find the backup record. Click on the Manage remote files button next to it. Now click on Download back to server. When this is over close the popup and reload the Manage Backups page. The backup record should now have a status of "OK" instead of "Remote". Now you can restore it.

Another way to do that is download the file from Dropbox, upload it to the site you are restoring to and upload kickstart.php (Akeeba Kickstart) there. Then access the /kickstart.php on that site to begin the extraction procedure.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Tuesday, 07 July 2015 04:35 CDT

user1042
I clicked "fetch back to server" on this page - http://screencast.com/t/gmHU9BIvSoRp
but all I get is this - http://screencast.com/t/swz0COD828

Tuesday, 07 July 2015 05:37 CDT

nicholas
Then you need to go for plan B, I'm afraid. Download the file from Dropbox, upload it to the site you are restoring to (not where Akeeba Solo is installed) and upload kickstart.php (Akeeba Kickstart) there. Then access the /kickstart.php on that site to begin the extraction procedure.

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!

Tuesday, 07 July 2015 05:40 CDT

user1042
Which one iof these files do I need to upload to the server? - http://screencast.com/t/OekOeU8bK
Also, can I restore to a different directory (meaning not to overwrite the original site, but rather make a copy of it)

Tuesday, 07 July 2015 08:13 CDT

nicholas
All of them. You have a multipart backup archive. You need all files: .jpa, .j01, .j02 and so on. They are treated by the extraction process as one archive automatically. However, ALL of these files must be present.

Also, can I restore to a different directory (meaning not to overwrite the original site, but rather make a copy of it)


Of course. It's the same procedure. Please watch our video tutorial ABS04 - Restoring a site on a new server

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!

Tuesday, 07 July 2015 15:11 CDT

user1042
I can't get it to work.
While extracting, it keeps getting stuck at the 22 part (out of 23).
I got this error:
An error occured
Invalid header in archive file, part 22, offset 0
I tried again and got -
Invalid header in archive file, part 22, offset 3670016

Although the error, It seems all the files were extracted, so I tried to browse to the new url and the installer came up and I installed and got a succes message, but when I click at the end to see the front page I just get a 404 page.



Tuesday, 07 July 2015 15:49 CDT

nicholas
Can you please ZIP and attach the backup log file? I want to see if the upload completed successfully or some parts could not be uploaded. In this case you'd be missing some backup parts which explains what you're seeing.

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!

Tuesday, 07 July 2015 17:20 CDT

user1042
Here's the log of the dropbox backup
Thanks!

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 01:38 CDT

nicholas
According to your log file your backup consists of exactly TWO parts:
  • site-www.mamon.biz-20150707-045953.j01
  • site-www.mamon.biz-20150707-045953.jpa

However you are talking about part 22 of 23. I'm confused. The log file doesn't seem to correspond with the backup you are trying to restore so there's nothing for me to help you with.

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!

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 02:07 CDT

user1042
Please see here that there are 23 parts - http://screencast.com/t/sI58Yisiuyek

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 02:43 CDT

nicholas
Oops, sorry, you're right. You've enabled the "Upload parts immediately" option. There are 24 parts in total: .jpa, .j01, .j02, ..., .j22, .j23.

First, please use the File and Directory Exclusion feature to exclude the contents of the directory media/com_acymailing/logs from your backup. I don't understand why AcyMailing chooses to put its private log files into a public directory instead of Joomla!'s own log directory as configured in Global Configuration (after all, Joomla!'s log directory is for, well, putting logs in it!) but this doesn't belong in the backup and it's 330 Megabytes. I also suspect that it changes its size while the backup is in progress which explains why the backup gets corrupt and is the exact reason we exclude logs from the backup archives.

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!

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 03:21 CDT

user1042
ok, did it.
The backup was realy much quicker now, thanks.

I got these warnings, does that matter -

Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/views
Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/views
Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/views
Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/core
Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/core
Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/core
Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/menu
Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/menu
Unreadable directory /home6/freepate/public_html/bikorot/components/com_s2framework/tmp/cache/menu

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 03:36 CDT

nicholas
These are file permission issues. BUT, since these are cache directories you don't want them to be backed up so please follow the same advice to exclude them from the backup. Again, like AcyMailing, the developer who wrote com_s2framework seems to ignore how Joomla! is supposed to work!!!! He's put a temporary, private cache into the PUBLIC directories of your site. From a security perspective this is somewhere between suicidal and outright moronic. What can I say? At some point Joomla! extension developers should learn to use the Joomla!-provided temporary, log and cache directories. It's not like they're a big secret. They've been there since December 2006. You'd think that eight and a half years would be enough for developers to catch up with the basics... *sigh*

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!

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 03:42 CDT

user1042
Thanks :)

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 04:20 CDT

user1042
I just restored now from dropbox and it works, thanks!

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 04:59 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome! I'm glad I could help you out :)

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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