Akeeba Backup 
Version
3.6.11 (last update on Jan 1, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
828
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
5 June 2007
Akeeba Backup has won the prestigious Administrator Only Extension J.O.S.C.A.R. Award at J and Beyond 2010. Download it for free to find out why.
Joomla! 2.5/3.0 only. We have older versions for Joomla! 1.5/1.6/1.7 on our site.
Features:
- It configures itself for optimal operation with your site. Just click on Configuration Wizard.
- One click backup.
- AJAX powered backup (site and database, database only, files only or incremental files only backup)
- The fastest native PHP backup engine.
- Choose between standard ZIP or highly efficient JPA archive format
- able to exclude specific files, folders
- able to exclude specific database tables or their contents
- Unattended backup mode (CRON job scheduling), fully compatible with Webcron.org
- Backup using any cellphone made after 2007 with a web browser using our exclusive "Lite Mode" (including the cheapest Nokia and Sony Ericsson models!)
- AJAX powered site restoration
- "Kickstart" restore: restore without unpacking backup
- Move your site between hosts without downloading/uploading anything (using the DirectFTP backup engine)
- Archives can be restored on any host. Useful for transferring your site between subdomains/hosts or even to/from your local testing server (XAMPP, WAMPServer, MAMP, Zend Server, etc).
and much much more!
Do not miss out the complimentary companion desktop software (Akeeba SiteDiff and Akeeba eXtract Wizard) which are available free of charge from our site. They make working with Akeeba Backup a breeze.
Note: The software is free of charge, its support is not. You need a valid subscription (starting at EUR 7.79) to request support. However, its documentation, the troubleshooting wizard and searching the forum is free.
*** IF YOU CAN'T FIND HOW TO ENABLE A FEATURE LISTED HERE, PLEASE READ THE (FREE) DOCUMENTATION! ***
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I loveeeee Akeeba Backup!! I wanted to copy my current site to another hosting, i can just install Akeeba, make a backup and restore it to the new hosting FTP from Akeeba and everything is so automatic, including configuring the new hosting, database, site name, etc. All done in less than 10minutes!!
Thank you so much for creating such a helpful component and the developers really thought about every aspect of it!
When you want to backup your site or move it, don't waste your time on other component. THIS IS IT!! THUMBS UP!!!
Thank you so much for creating such a helpful component and the developers really thought about every aspect of it!
When you want to backup your site or move it, don't waste your time on other component. THIS IS IT!! THUMBS UP!!!
Every time I run Akeeba Backup to backup my site, I am amazed at how well it works. My entire website is backed up in less than a minute with a single click on a button. Restoring your website is almost as easy. And this is a FREE extension... incredible.
This is a must-have for EVERY Joomla user. Never worry about losing your data or having to transfer your website again.
This is a must-have for EVERY Joomla user. Never worry about losing your data or having to transfer your website again.
Thank god for this software.... without it my site would have had to been rebuilt from the ground up, thanks to Akeeba I had my site back in almost no time at all. Would be nice to have a restore function from within the software, but downloading the zip and decompressing it to the root of the site wasn't that big a deal.
I gladly give this extension the highest rating. I have worked with Joomla! for years and manage dozens of Joomla! sites. Akeeba Backup is standard on every site I manage. We use it not only for backup and disaster recovery, but as a quick and easy way to migrate new sites from a development server to a production environment. Deploying sites from an archive is so easy that we can deploy earlier versions of a site in a matter of minutes. We subscribe to the Professional version of the product and never deploy a site without it.
Akeeba Backup is one of the extensions I install first on every website I build. Backups are essential. Moving sites from one server to another or from localhost to a live server is an easy task with Akeeba Backup. Akeeba Backup makes me feel safer and saves me a lot of time. Akeeba Backup is a must for all my websites and I can highly recommend it.
I am not the most brilliant Joomla user, but I get by. Recently, I made the decision to move a few of my domains to a new host. All of them were fairly easy - but one was a massive site all built in Joomla. I was extremely nervous. I read a lot about Akeeba (and the KickStarter) and decided to give it a go. Wow! All my worry for DAYS was for not. Once I created the MySQL Db in the new host and did all the linking (super-straight-forward using KickStarter) - I restored my entire site from the back-up made with Akeeba BackUp... all in about 20 minutes. Done.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am very glad there are great extensions out there to help us little guys do things we'd normally have *no clue* how to do.
I heartedly recommend this extension to anyone not only looking to move their site, but to keep back-ups for restoration if needed.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am very glad there are great extensions out there to help us little guys do things we'd normally have *no clue* how to do.
I heartedly recommend this extension to anyone not only looking to move their site, but to keep back-ups for restoration if needed.
As others have said, this should come as standard with Joomla and Im sure in the future it will. Moving or backing up a site is a dream.
Great work to the developer!
Great work to the developer!
Easy to install and use. This extension saves you time. I used it on all of my websites.
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