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#12707 Upgrade 2.5 Import Profiles

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 07:59 CDT

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 07:25 CDT

toomanylogins
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.4)
PHP version: (5.3)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Akeeba Backup version: (3.5.1)

I have upgraded to joomal 2.5 from 1.5.26 and reinstalled Akeeba. I have a dump of the 4 jos_ak tables from 1.5 version. I have changed the table prefix to j25_ak and run the query to import the data. My 4 profiles appear in akeeba 3.5.1 however the Amazon s3 config is missing. Should this approach work have you changed the format of database tables?
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Regards
Paul

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 07:42 CDT

nicholas
You have to first copy the file administrator/components/com_akeeba/akeeba/serverkey.php to the new site, then copy the ak_* tables. The serverkey.php file contains the encryption key used to encrypt your settings in the database. Without it Akeeba Backup can't decrypt your settings and resets them to the default values. We've implemented this feature as a protection against third party extensions' SQL injection vulnerabilities. Even if an attacker manages to dump the settings of Akeeba Backup they will be an encrypted mess, not allowing the attacker to gain access to sensitive information, like Amazon S3 keys.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Tuesday, 19 June 2012 07:57 CDT

toomanylogins
Thanks thats sorted it

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 07:59 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome!

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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