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This is such a great application, a true must for everyone working with Joomla.

It is easy to install, easy to work with.

Fantastic! I was very frustrated with zipping JOOMLA! sites, no C panel on some servers, no propper Php My admin. MAC created all kinds of resource fork files when zipping that messed up my Joomla website. I remembered AKEEBA and decided to give it a try. It solved all my problems just in time to save my deadline. Well done guys and all for free!

Simply to install, simply to use. Its a very fine BackUpTool.

Akeeba Backup is the first extension I install when delivering a new site to a client. Truely amazing component and very user friendly.

If you don't have it, why are you still here? Go. Download. Now.

I took the pro version with admin tools right from the start. Excellent documentation, excellent support. My request was solved within 1 hour. Now it is really just 1 klick and I got a zip that has it all. Setting up a testsite using this live zip is just as easy. I copy zip and a single php file in my new folder on web space, access the php in my browser, set details for my site and new database...that's it...done...

I feel secure now, knowing I can backup with 1 klick and not missing anything. Futhermore I can set a timer to auto backup.

This extension should be a part of the joomla core itself! This is a great extension, It saved my work plenty of times. Thank you for your work guys! I use this on every one of my sites and i'm very very happy with it!
Thanks keep it up!

Making backup with Akeeba works great, but restoring a Akeeba backup is a different story...
this should be in one package..

dutch

i use akeeba backup for all of my projects and have to say that it works really excellent. project is often updated which i think is good. the lazy plugin is really comfortable and makes automatic backups easy. just lean back and let the plugin do its thing.
thanks to all the devs, u do a good job.

Akeeba Backup is an amazing, rock-solid component and it still blows me away that it is free (Thank goodness). I use the software for all my projects and have rarely ran into problems and have always gotten them resolves. This component should just be added to core, it's that excellent.

What can I say that hasn't already been stated by much more seasoned users than me, other than Excellent!!

This component is really great, very easy to install, and in just some minutes it is set up and working! I'm not an experienced user, but you almost can't do wrong! thank you, I'm feeling much safer now because my whole site is backed up! :)

As the subject says, this is a magical extension. I've tested it on Joomla 1.5 & 1.6 versions and tried to crash it. Nothing. Every time, it performed flawlessly.

The two test sites, 1.5 & 1.6, I tested it on had basic, custom templates and various plugins/extensions installed. Akeeba handled all of them without a hitch. I even took a backup and installed it on a different server/database. Again, no problem proving how easy it is to migrate to another server. I can now offer a very competitively priced backup option to all my clients for the Joomla sites I've created for them.

A breeze to install and run. Download it now, install it, back up your site, then donate to the author. It's way worth it and will make your Joomla development life so easy.

This is the first thing you should install. It makes a lot easier, more efficient, and simpler. I dig it.

I have been using Akeeba Backup for almost a year now, and I have to say that this is one of the best extensions ever made for Joomla. Whenever I develop a new website, Akeeba Backup is one of the first components to be installed.
And this was tested to backup small websites of a couple of Mb, and large websites of a couple hundreds of Mb. The product remained stable no matter what.
Thank you Nicholas, and to everyone who helped make this extension what it is today.

If you're looking for an easy to use backup extension, look no further. I have used Akeeba Backup on all the sites I've created and it works like a charm, it really is the best joomla backup extension there is!

In reply to an email the author of this extension asked me to post a review. Herewith review #538 !!!) of this excellent product, the email that I sent to him having read as follows ...

Nicholas,

Thanks for creating Akeeba Backup, and thanks for keeping the core version non-commercial. I'm new to Joomla -- indeed new to web stuff -- but I'm very aware of the importance of a site backup/restore facility that actually works. (I agree with you. If you haven't proved your ability to restore a site then you really don't have anything.)

Accordingly I backed up my experimental Joomla site, downloaded the resulting jpa file to my local machine, cleared out the root of my hosting account after creating an empty mySQL database, then uploaded the jpa along with kickstart.php and the ini file for English, and then restored the site.

It all worked exactly as advertised, and your excellent step-by-step documentation gave me confidence that you know exactly what you're doing in a professional sense. You can be sure that I'll be visiting your site occasionally, and that someday you'll have me as a paying customer. :)

thx,
Mike McCarthy
Lakewood, Colorado, USA

Yes, you may quote me as a testimonial if this would be useful to you.

Outstanding backup component. Excellent and friendly support. Of course I use it for producing backups but I also like it because it makes transfering new websites developed on a local xampp server to a live server a quick and easy task.

This product does what it should right out of the box. And they are quick to respond. I still haven't tapped into all the features. But I'm going to to check out the video tutorials on Lynda.com about Joomla security, where they demonstrate and use the Akeeba tools.

Stated many times for sure, but its true, this is one of the best extensions for Joomla. The Akeeba Developers should be rightly proud of themselves, their efforts to provide us with one of the best in JED is very much appreciated.

this solution really works specially for newbies. easy to understand and implement...even the multiple backup.