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#16980 Scheduled restore

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 06 August 2013 09:08 CDT

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 05:51 CDT

tk
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.14)
PHP version: (5.3.26)
MySQL version: (5.5.32-cll)
Akeeba Backup version which took the backup: (3.7.10)
Kickstart version used to extract the backup: (unknown)

Description of my issue:
Is it possible to schedule restoration? I need to automatically restore my one backup once per hour. Can i configure Akeeba Backup in that way?

PS. Sorry for my english.

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 05:57 CDT

nicholas
Akeeba Backup can't be scheduled to restore a site automatically. We have a different product, called Akeeba UNiTE, to do that. It allows you to perform unattended restoration of backups taken with Akeeba Backup from the command line. It can be scheduled with a standard CRON job to restore the same site at the same place every hour. We built UNiTE with two use cases in mind:
a. Creating cloned sites automatically (e.g. hosting company wanting to deploy pre-built websites for its clients)
b. Demo site which need the same backup to be restored every few minutes / hours.
Akeeba UNiTE is only available to subscribers of the Deluxe subscription level.

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, 06 August 2013 06:03 CDT

tk
What is the best way to extend my subscription? I have only "regular" subscription.

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 06:28 CDT

nicholas
You can log in to AkeebaBackup.com and proceed to buying a Deluxe subscription. You will be given an automatic discount based on your existing subscriptions and the subscription time left on each one. The new Deluxe subscription will replace your Essentials one.

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, 06 August 2013 07:05 CDT

tk
It works, but is there any option to delete all files of my site before restoration? I need to delete all user's images from /images folder.

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 07:12 CDT

nicholas
Hm, that's a good question. Nobody had asked for such a feature. You can't do it with UNiTE but you can do it with the shell script that calls UNiTE's CRON job. Let's say you have the following shell script:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/php-cli /home/cuckoo/unite/unite.php

You could modify it to:
#!/bin/sh
rm -rf /home/cuckoo/public_html/images
/usr/bin/php-cli /home/cuckoo/unite/unite.php

and achieve the result you want. You'd just have to call the shell script instead of directly launching UNiTE.

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, 06 August 2013 08:31 CDT

tk
Thank you. It's working:-)

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 09:08 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome!

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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