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I bought this backup tool because my server has some corrupt files and I can no longer access plesk control panel or phpadmin.

I first tried this with a small site and everything went very smoothly.

However, I have a few sites where I have many large files that are not directly connected to the joomla database. In config I chose to backup the database alone and not files. In "generate backup" I clicked on folders which contained photoablums in order to exclude them.

However, I ended up with a 600 MB file for one site and a 1.3 GB file for another.

When I came to restore this file I got this error message:

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The following error occurred:

[code=SERVER_RESPONSE_CLOSE] The server closed the connection while reading the response. Contact your system administrator.

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All the other non-releated files were copied to the new server and seem to work. However, the joomla database doesn't work and I get this error:

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Warning: main(/var/www/vhosts/srinaiweb.com/httpdocs/includes/version.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/srinaiwe/public_html/includes/joomla.php on line 71

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/vhosts/srinaiweb.com/httpdocs/includes/version.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/srinaiwe/public_html/includes/joomla.php on line 71

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I guess my question is, how can I exclude all the extra files that are not related to the joomla installation which is making the backup file too big?

Thanks for your time.