Get rid of error when trying to restore or clone

  • Resolved mickey65

    (@mickey65)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    Without having to create a new blog and using an installer.php and archive file, how do you get around the error message that appears if you have deleted plugins or themes from the archive and the plugin will NOT work, because it says the archive is not the same size as it was when the backup was created?

    Let’s say your original archive is 25MB

    Then you go into the archive and delete some themes and/or plugins

    Now after the deletions, the new archive is now 20MB

    Trying to run the installer.php generates an error that there is a size difference in the archive.

    If you only have a very few blogs, you could just create a new blog for each and then use the installer.php file and archive to clone it.

    If you have a lot of blogs, the time to create a new blog for each and then clone from the backup would take an exorbitant amount of time and resources.

    So why can’t the error message coding be removed from the appropriate coding?

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  • When archive files are built there is a checksum to validate the integrity of the archive. Removing data from the archive after its built violates the checksum and thus creates an invalid archive file.

    The best way to remove files from the archive is to not include them as part of the build process. On step 1 of the build process is the option for file and directory filters. Just add the files/directories to the filter list (the ones you don’t want) and it is the exact same thing as trying to remove them after the archive is built.

    Thanks

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