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#14102 Output file on location other than local server?

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 01:41 CST

Monday, 12 November 2012 18:03 CST

user62070

I am using CloudAccess to host my Joomla Site. I am using their VPMC service.

My site is somewhat large, and each additional GB costs me a decent monthly fee. Since my backups are over 15GB, if I want to run Akeeba I have to pay for an additional 15GB of storage each month.

Because even if I have the backup uploaded immediately after it is created, it still requires 15GB of local storage to create the backup file, which I would have to pay for each month even if I only use it temporarily.

My question is if there is any way to get around this with akeeba.

Can akeeba write directly to a drive that is non-local?

Can I have Akeeba somehow make a small file, transfer to S3, Delete that file, make next small file, transfer to S3, delete, and so on...till it has completed the backup?

 

Thanks,

 

Ken

Tuesday, 13 November 2012 01:41 CST

nicholas

It's documented. Go to Components, Akeeba Backup, Configuration. In Data Processing row make sure that Amazon S3 is selected and click on Configure button. Enable "Process each part immediately". Now you need to set up small part files. In Configuration page, find the Archiver engine row and click on the Configure button next to it. In the pane which opens below set the Part Size for Split Archives to something low, e.g. 100Mb. The maximum space you will need during backup is twice the amount of your part size plus the size of the database dump.

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