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I am in the testing phase of a project and have to restore a previous version of the site, without an update package applied. The update package adds files and a table that are left behind after restoring the previous version. Both result in errors when accessing the site. For removal of the table I tried the existing tables "Drop All" in the database restoration advanced options. This fails because there are some database constraints in place that prevent it. I have no clue how to remove the files that cause errors when left behind.

Is there any way to solve this, without having to ask the testers to manually remove everything before restoration?

Thanx for the reply.

When you restore the database, please double check that the option "Suppress Foreign Key checks" is flagged: https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/akeeba-backup-joomla/angie-installers.html#angie-common-database

This should let you drop tables even if they are linked by foreign indexes.

Because that setting is the default, I am pretty sure it was flagged all of the times. It does not seem to do what is expected though.

when restoring the backup, Akeeba Backup will not delete any "extra" files (ie files that were added after the backup). You have to manually delete them.

Can you think of a way to automate this?