Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Monday, 12 December 2016 13:10 CST

Scotty87

Hello,

Amazon S3 has recently opened a new region in Canada (Montreal). This region isn't available in the drop down selection in Akeeba Backup Pro. I assume it needs to be patched to include this new region?

Otherwise, please advise how I can update to using the new unlisted region.

Best regards,

Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:05 CST

nicholas

Yes, this will require changes in the backup engine. Even though we had added extra regions following the existing naming conventions of S3, the new region has an entirely different endpoint name (ca-central-1) which we could not have anticipated as it's breaking away from the continent-compass_point-number convention they had been using so far.

Unfortunately your support request came after we released a new version of our backup software which is meant to be the last in the current branch (5.2 for Akeeba Backup for Joomla, 2.0 for Akeeba Backup for WordPress and Akeeba Solo). The next update to the backup engine will not take place for another two months when we will release Akeeba Backup 5.3.0. Until then you won't be able to use the Canada region unless, of course, you upgrade to any development, alpha, beta or Release Candidate versions we release in the meantime.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 13 December 2016 09:55 CST

Scotty87

ok Thank you, I understand. a couple month isn't bad - we are looking to move as much within our borders as possible and the new AWS region was a welcoming addition since it's the first one (we have been using US).

Will keep an eye out for the next versions :)

Tuesday, 13 December 2016 11:36 CST

nicholas

I know exactly what you mean. We have been storing our sensitive data (like full site backups) inside the EU borders for the same obvious reasons.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:17 CST

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