Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Sunday, 11 December 2011 14:59 CST

gbreen

This is more of a feature request.

We were wondering if there is a way to or you could potentially create a way to make an automated system. The system would automatically backup site '1' on server 'A' and automatically restore site '1' on server 'B'?

The goal would be to set this up to run ever x hours so that we could provide fail over to server 'B'

If this would be a paid feature can you contact me about the costs involved?

gbreen (at) scopedesign (dot) com

great backup program we use it everyday!

Sunday, 11 December 2011 15:25 CST

nicholas

I currently have something like that in the works. It will be available to AKEEBADELUXE subscribers over the next few months. The target launch date is March 2012. The idea is that you will be able to set up a script which backs up Site A using Akeeba Backup's remote API and automatically restore it to Site B over FTP. The only pre-requisite (for now) is that the server running the script must have access to Site B.

One practical scenario would be like this: The script is on Site B and runs every X hours. Upon the end of the backup, the script download the backup archives from Site A to Site B. It then extracts the backup archive to Site B's web root, automatically restores the database, reconfigures the configuration.php file and removes the installation directory. The only requirement would be being able to set up CRON jobs on Site B. Any VPS or dedicated server should allow that.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Sunday, 11 December 2011 15:30 CST

gbreen

Hey Nicholas,

that sounds perfect!

Any chance of making a contribution to expedite the dev? This is something we need sooner than the next few months.

thanks man great work as always!

Greg

Sunday, 11 December 2011 15:34 CST

nicholas

Hi Greg,

It's not the lack of money that keeps me from spending time on it. It's purely lack of available time. Right now I have all the restoration code in place and I have to integrate the remote CLI code into this solution. The first beta will be hopefully released by the end of the month.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Sunday, 11 December 2011 15:40 CST

gbreen

cool anyway to let me know when its beta is available I will happily sign up for the AKEEBADELUXE. Would love to beta test this!

this will provide us all a simple inexpensive failover solution when combined with something like dnsmadeeasy....

bravo!

Sunday, 11 December 2011 15:45 CST

nicholas

Keep an eye on our Twitter account or our release announcements. I will certainly be announcing it there :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Wednesday, 28 December 2011 19:20 CST

gbreen

Hey Nicholas,

Just checking in on this. Is it still on the radar I have been checking the twitter feed but may have missed it. If not I want to offer my encouragement to continue the great work.

Have a great new year and thanks so much for your efforts!

Greg

Thursday, 29 December 2011 01:58 CST

nicholas

It's still on my radar, but I have to delay it a little. I had to make sure that everything I make works on the upcoming Joomla! 2.5 release and I had to implement a major new Admin Tools feature first, so the real work on getting the automated installation tool ready will begin today :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Friday, 06 January 2012 14:31 CST

gbreen

Not to be a thorn but I know how it goes if something's not in front of me I don’t keep working on it. How's it going?

& Happy New Year!

Friday, 06 January 2012 14:56 CST

nicholas

Hi,

Happy new year!

I will have to delay it for months. There are other things which have priority: stabilising Admin Tools enough so as not to generate 50 support requests per day (obviously nobody paid attention to the fact that 2.0.a1 is an alpha release, not meant for use on live sites) and upgrade the site to Joomla! 2.5. The latter point implies that I have to finish up creating the new support system and the migration scripts, which is a huge amount of work. And there's the overdue Akeeba Backup 3.4 I need to work on. And Akeeba Subscriptions 2.0 stable. So, I have to push the unattended restoration back for 2-4 months. Writing the code is easy (it's two day's work, if I could ever get two quiet days in a row). Documenting everything is a bitch. Documenting requires focus and I am afraid I can't have it right now.

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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