simple backup function question

Greetings!
When I perform a manual system backup and check all the boxes, the backup process tells me it has backed up the media files for Profiles with ID # ___ etc etc. But it lists the Profile ID numbers all the way up to 6900. I only have about 2800 current members, in the past I have deleted/removed several thousand obsolete members.
I'm wondering if this "backing up media files for..." process means that i am still storing defunct media files for thousands of deleted members...? OR does it mean nothing more than: the system is still acknowledging those old Profile ID numbers so it does not duplicate them for new members? (because i know profile ID #s are used once to label every member and don't reflect the actual current number of existing active members)

Anyway, I'm hoping I'm not still storing deleted members' media files? Should I check on this? I believe I long ago checked the box to YES remove a member's content if the member was removed, but I can't recall where that option is found so I can again double check it.


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015
updated by @strumelia: 05/08/20 03:49:43PM

Profile ID numbers are never reused if a profile is deleted, so check that your manual backup process is NOT listing profile IDs 'contiguously' up to 6900, but only 2800 in total.
hth


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Paul, how do I 'check' that it's not? As i said, during the backup process, the window zooms through a huge list of lines saying "backing up media files for profile ID ____ ...." with numbers for each line going all the way up to about 6900.
This stuff in the 'Manual backup' is stored on my JR server, not the amazon S3, correct? -- my DAILY auto backups are set to the S3 bucket, but my HOURLY backups are NOT checked to save to S3, so I guess they save to the JR server. But where do the manual backups save to?...the S3 i'm guessing?


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

Here's what I see at the end of a manual backup:


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

Can you not use the scroll bar on the right of the modal window to see everything that happened?


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Yes I can Paul, but this was just a screenshot to show you that it (always) goes up to ID # 6900. It starts at #s 1, 2, etc. Do you maybe want another screenshot of that beginning part of profile media backing up, like what it says just before it starts with ID #1 ?


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

So are you saying that there are 6900 entries made to that modal window during the backup, every one from 1 to 6900?
Have just looked at your database. The first missing profile ID is 6731. Scroll down the modal window to see if its missing there. Scroll to the start of the backup. The first missing IDs should be 8 and 9. If they are missing, I bet there are only 2864 messages in the modal window after all (the number of profiles you have).


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist
updated by @paul: 02/08/20 02:37:17PM