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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:45 CDT

Monday, 17 September 2012 23:56 CDT

user56911
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? No
Have I searched the tickets before posting? No
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: 2.5.
PHP version: 5_3
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Akeeba Backup version: 3.6.5

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Description of my issue:

Hello, i ask one question please. I am very happy to use akeeba pro.
I search a solution for one personne who can have access to download a file made with akeeba, like i do with filezilla.
kind regards
Jean-Pierre

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:14 CDT

nicholas
It is possible, but it all comes down to whether your hosts supports it. Here's what I've done on my site.

  1. I created a directory above my site's root. Let's call it "my_backups"
  2. I edited the Output Directory in Akeeba Backup's configuration to point to [ROOTPARENT]/my_backups
  3. I created a new FTP account for my site and set its root directory to be my_backups.


Therefore Akeeba Backup backs up into the my_backups directory. Since my FTP client connects using the new FTP account I created, it's limited to seeing the contents of the my_backups directory (they can't go a directory above, therefore no access to the site's files). Since that directory is off-site it's not possible to access its contents from the web. That's it.

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!

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:29 CDT

user56911
Thank you Nicholas, i will verify with ovh haw i can create a new user with only access to copy the safe file.
Kind Regards
Jean-Pierre

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:45 CDT

nicholas
If it's possible please share the information here. It might be useful for someone searching about how to do a similar thing in the future.

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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