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#43243 CLI to update akeeba solo and manage backups

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PHP version
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Akeeba Solo version
9.1.8

Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 05 August 2026 05:01 CDT

Tuesday, 04 August 2026 11:09 CDT

carcam
I love Akeeba Solo and it helps me a lot in my day to day operations and I also love CLI, so I was wondering if you could add some basic CLI extra functions that will be really useful.

1. A command to update Akeeba Solo or to send an email when a new update is released.
2. A command to manage backups, and to be more specific, a way to remove backup files from the server, and more importantly, to perform the upload to external storage when the file is still in the server.

Actually number 2 will be a great compliment to the check-failed thing so that it can retry the upload if that is what it failed.

In any case thank you very much for a great tool!!

Tuesday, 04 August 2026 15:54 CDT

nicholas

There are no plans for CLI commands in Akeeba Solo. Frankly, it is a very niche product with just a couple dozen users. Moreover, it's in a common repository with Akeeba Backup for WordPress which is definitely not a niche product. Adding CLI commands just to Solo is convoluted. It would duplicate the work I have done for ABWP, I would have to exclude all that work from ABWP (which is complicated because we'd have to pull in several Composer dependencies, especially Symfony Console and everything it pulls is), and makes the cybersecurity risk analysis for it extremely complicated (which becomes very relevant in December 2027 when EU CRA comes into effect). It just does not make sense for me to put a lot of work into it when it's not even going to break even and will also complicate my life considerably trying to self-certify ABWP for EU CRA in a few months.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Wednesday, 05 August 2026 04:30 CDT

carcam
Thanks for your reply. I had to try ;)

In any case I do love Akeeba Solo.

Wednesday, 05 August 2026 05:01 CDT

nicholas

Thank you for your understanding, Carlos! It is much appreciated :)

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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