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#31872 Kickstart interface selects wrong backup archive from Amazon S3

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Latest post by on Friday, 15 November 2019 17:17 CST

jorlan
Hi,

I'm using Kickstart quite frequently, among others for transferring a copy of a site to a develop hosting environment. That is what I was doing when the following occurred:

  • I stored several backups of a site on S3. This site has some legacy extensions which need to be removed / replaced. Because of this legacy situation, the site cannot run on php 7.1 at present.

  • Using Kickstart I wanted to restore one of the backups on a develop hosting account which runs on php 5.6 (just like the live site itself). When connected to S3, I selected one of the backups that I wanted to restore.

  • I needed a particular backup which was not the most recent one. However I found out that, no matter which backup I clicked in the list, Kickstart always downloaded the most recent one.


Now this is about a legacy site running on php 5.6 but I remember that I had similar issues on a few other occasions, with other sites as well. At those times, on a second attempt I did get the backup that I needed. I So thought that I clicked the wrong item in the list. However after today's experience I wonder if in these cases it might have been the same issue with Kickstart, instead of me clicking on the wrong item.

Unfortunately I couldn't tell you any details about these other occasions (e.g. php versions) as I didn't take notes and I am working with a lot of sites.


Is this an issue with Kickstart that you know of?

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

yes, there was an issue on selecting the correct backup archive while restoring from S3.
It has been fixed in the latest Kickstart version; can you please download it and try again?

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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jorlan
Hi Davide,

Thanks for your reply. I am glad to hear that this is / was a known issue; that may account for my earlier issues.

Today I used Kickstart 6.0.1 (and not 6.6.0 as I accidentally mentioned), I think that this is the latest version.

Maybe the issue is specific for php 5? In that case I suppose that you shouldn't bother too much. I submitted this ticket mainly because I recognized this issue from earlier occasions.


tampe125
Akeeba Staff
ah, you're right!
I fixed it, but it didn't land in a stable release yet. Please download the latest dev release and try again.
We're going to release a new version in the next weeks, in the meantime you can use the dev release.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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jorlan
I understand the status of your fix, I'll check out the dev release.

Thanks again!

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