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This is in followup of ticket 22878. I managed to migrate without problems (couldn't respond to correct ticket cause it was locked). However i've noticed something while i ran a site backup prior planning to update some extensions

The site official site is now at the host root with the "old" one on the subfolder joom3

<root> <=main site
<root>/joom3 <= old one

However when running a backup the backup included BOTH the <root> installation as well as the <root>/joom3 installation in the archive effectively doubling the backup archive of what it should be.

This is probably something to do due to the config settings of AB still using the old locations and can probably be fixed easily (so i can update my CLI url too), however not wanting to modify the wrong things can anyone of u lot point me to the right place and what i need to change?

Thx

That would be the expected behavior, it backs up everything under the site root. You need to go to the Akeeba Backup Control Panel and use the Exclude Files and Folders to exclude the /joom3 folder. If you are using the same database for both sites, you should exclude the tables for the jooml3 site as well. They are not a problem to back up, except for the size of the file. They can cause a real mess when you try to restore though.

nah specifically avoided the same database issue. Setup a totally clean one, that only takes 5 seconds to do.

However before i go using the excluding option, i noticed under "Configuration" basic settings destination folder is also set to

/home/<user>/domains/<domain>/public_html/joom3/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup

would it not suffice to strip the joom3 part from that? Because at some point if i exclude that folder and eventually delete it, it would try to store the backups in a folder that doesn't exist.

I suppose i'll need to do both?

** edit ** i noticed that some are fixed red, the one i click is yellow. Normal? A second thing i've noticed that when i manually enter a description, it does not maintain the "blank lines [enter button]".

Eg: abcdef

ghijkl

apears as "abcdef ghijkl"

Could this be fixed so it's remembered? I often use basic "lists" but that's a mess to read with the blank lines not being remembered

You can strip out the joom3 or you can use [DEFAULT_OUTPUT], which is a magic phrase that always translates to the backup folder of the current site.

i was doing an edit during the time you posted. i'd appreciate info on that too. No more edits for now :)

The fixed red are tmp, cache, etc. Folders that should not be included in the backup. The current Output folder is excluded as well so you don't back up your backup archives.

I'm re-replying as you're re-posting. :-)

Can you send me a screen shot of

apears as "abcdef ghijkl"

please?

ya missed a bit ;) about the yellow color

i can inform though that after excluding the joom3 folder and setting destination to [SITE-ROOT] the file size was back to the correct size for mine and in the proper AB backup folder

screenshot attached. Be advised, its a large one as i use dual monitor setup.