Backup Date Overview

[flow-motion]

Hi Niko
I just asked myself if a "last backup succesfully taken on" - Dashboard Info would be great. And - may be - also a button in the sites panel with: Backup NOW
?
Just an idea

[nikosdion]

What constitutes a “successful” backup may have a different meaning for some people than it does for Akeeba Backup. For me, any backup which does not end in an error is successful, even if it failed to upload to remote storage. That, I can report. People, they don't like this. They might consider a backup which they failed to download correctly from storage to be broken. Therefore, I have decided to NEVER report backups as successful or not.

Moreover, as I have explained, I cannot reliably tell you when the last backup was without reloading the list of backups for every site, every minute, which would crash your site and the monitoring server.

As for backup now, it's already there since version 1.0.0.

[nikosdion]

I am thinking there is a way to do something like that, see #396

[flow-motion]

I am totally with you. Every Backup, that gets a green Hook in Akeeba, is a succesfull backup for the first view. The deeper testing, incl. a rebuild is in the users hand.
So a column in the overview: last bakup from akeeba succefully taken: jan, 9th would be a win in my eyes.

Just my thoughts (and in the sites details we find exactly these information - but just in details :) )

have a great time

[nikosdion]

Try cleaning the contents of your tmp folder.

[flow-motion]

In the tmp is only a update.zip the htaccess / the web-config
I guess these should be there
I have a compiled-Templates folder with a lot of .php files. Delete the files?

[nikosdion]

Yes, that's what cleaning the contents of a folder means. Delete anything under it, files and subdirectories.

[flow-motion]

WOOOOW - i even see fav.icons now from the website.
That worked!

Thanks man.

I am always a little bit afraid of deleting files . ) -

[nikosdion]

Cheers!

The tmp and cache directories' contents are safe to delete. Always. We write our code sensibly, expecting that temporary and cache files may disappear anytime. Not like some Joomla! extensions which put files to keep forever in the cache folder 💀