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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 21 January 2012 13:47 CST

Saturday, 21 January 2012 09:17 CST

nickg
hello
Admintools was installed on my site and it worked perfectly.
I had, for various reasons to need to re-installed my site.
So I deleted all the files from my site.
I had a backup (.Jpa) of my website . Admintools was not installed in this backup.
I used kickstart to restore my files and all went well and I installed admintools.
A fanstastique thing appeared: admintools has kept the configuration that there was before .
How is that possible, when I erased all files?
Nick

Saturday, 21 January 2012 13:24 CST

nicholas
Hi Nick,

Admin Tools' configuration is stored in the database, namely all the jos_admintools_* table, where jos_ is the database table prefix for your site. If you don't uninstall the component (which will remove those tables), the tables stay in the database and are not replaced during a new installation of Admin Tools. In other words, restoring your site deleted the files, not the tables, and when you reinstalled Admin Tools, it found your old configuration tables and kept them. Wham! Your configuration is kept ;)

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!

Saturday, 21 January 2012 13:44 CST

nickg
so if I understood when I used kickstart to restore my site it asked me if I wanted delete tables in the databese . Kickstart deleted only tables I wanted to remplace So he keept admintools tables, ok
Anyway I red (with our friend google )all documentation about admintools . Very interresting and You do a great job with AdmminTools.
I do not regret purchasing the software.
Thank you

Saturday, 21 January 2012 13:47 CST

nicholas
Ah, here's the misconception: restoring a site does not delete any tables. It will overwrite the tables which already exist, but those tables which are in the database and not in the backup will be left intact. This is a very useful trick when you're trying to do partial backups and restorations, e.g. in order to update a site without having to overwrite all data (such as users, subscriptions and items sold on your e-shop component). That's why Admin Tools' tables were not removed when you restored your site.

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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