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Backing up settings: 700 MB when it should be 15?!

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Backing up settings: 700 MB when it should be 15?!
« on: August 22, 2004, 05:02:09 AM »
Hi!

I'm all entousiast at what I can do with my new SME equiped box!!! :) I just created some ibays and I'm starting to see its powerfullness.

Since I created many things on the server, I wanted to backup my settings. I have 2 ibays for 2 different web site containging each about ~400 Mb of digital photos.

When I go in the server-manager, under the "Sauvegarder ou restaurer les données de serveur" (Save or restore server data), the page tells me:
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Actuellement, vos fichiers de configuration et de données totalisent environ 15Mb.
(Actually, your configuration and data files are occupating 15Mb of space)

SME also tells me it should be a bit less compressed.

I then choose "Sauvegarde dans l'ordinateur de bureau" (Saving to workstation), thinking I would download a small 15MB file, but whats my surprise to see the 700 MB file!!!

Could it be possible to chose what to backup? I'm the kind of guy who likes making backup once a day but only about config, not data. I have a CD of those 700 MB photos so I don't need, and I don't want, to download a 700MB file everyday!

Also, why is SME telling me its should be 15MB? Is it because only the config files are 15MB and SME isn't calculating the data size? Could this be a bug?

I also saw that when downloading the file, my browser (Mozilla Firefox v0.9.3 (yes I'm on Windows XP! :))) doesn't seems to know the file size and so, the download time remaining. Could a feature like this be implemented into SME? Is it possible or is it a browser issue?


Thank you very much for you time :)

big_gie

Backing up settings: 700 MB when it should be 15?!
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2004, 05:25:27 AM »
I should have searched... :roll:
Here is a HowTo for excluding/including folders to backup:
http://www.schirrms.net/sme/SMEBackup.php
(In french)

big_gie

Backing up settings: 700 MB when it should be 15?!
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2004, 06:10:12 PM »
I just edited files as posted by this HowTo and now my backup is 15 MB :)