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*faint*
Ovidiu was so fast to help me I almost got a heartattack. in 20 mins he helped me fix everything...

Just amazing! Thank you so much

This is a must have extension with a fantastic support. It was a life saver for me in more than one occasions. Best money I ever spent!

While this component did (eventually) clone my site to a new server, it still has some glitches and bugs to be worked out. A novice might not have been successful with this tool. I was able to trouble-shoot my way through the bugs, but only because of my years of knowledge about servers, mysql, and PHP. I am not hopeful for less experienced users.

The good news:
With that said, this product is poised to become one of the most useful joomla tools ever. With some software updates, JoomlaCloner can be a great product.

I'll be watching, and waiting.

A superb program for which I gladly paid $100, just on the strength of the product description alone. It works fine. What you get for $100 is hand-holding support. And this too is top-rate. Can't imagine anyone investing countless hrs in site development without first having a solid backup and migrating utility like this.

before purchase, I did a few hrs research into other backup solutions. Nothing else looked comparable.

If you use this, the first time you do a clone (i.e. to move an entire site to a new host), you will want to prepare a checklist of items needed, like host setup parameters, directory structures, permissions, mysql info. Variables among hosting setups make the clone process less than 'automatic.' Support is solid, so no worry.

Nice utility that easily moved my websites from their servers to a local WAMP install for backup and as a local development area.

A couple of gotchas which maybe documented. 1. Beware if you have relocated configuration.php as per security recommendations - this file may not be backed up and the new site will not work, but it is easily copied over. 2. If your site uses .htaccess, php.ini and any of the SEFs then you might have to edit these files on your local WAMP install. Not a bug in JoomlaCloner, but make sure site does fully work in the cloned area. Otherwise, well worth the investment.

The component is wonderful and the technical service too. Not only does it provide me real security but it also helps me to save a lot of hours of work for each portal.

It is highly recommended.

As an almost total newbie in the Joomla world, I had this up & running in a matter of minutes. My hosting provider's limitations presented some challenges - and every one has been dealt with unbelievably quickly by the friendly support team. Brilliant, and more than worth the investment.

This is a fabulous component that is easy to use and well documented. A good cya :) tool! Handy and definitely useful.

I have been using Joomla Cloner for the past few months and it has never let me down. It has always worked for me, and restored/created websites in a fraction of the time I used to spend installing from scratch.

Thank you for your hard work and excellent software Ovidiu!!!

PS You can see from other comments how Ovidiu must have used JoomlaCloner on himself to create 100 Ovidius (how else can he respond to support emails so efficiently? ;)

Found it simple to install. Congifuration was straight forward, and it has the right options to give me what I needed. Many thanks.

These guys are so good in support... it makes anyone happy to work with them.. I wished all the companies use their support system as a benchmark or standard. :-)

And not to forget JooomlaCloner saves lots of time and very easy to use.

Thanks. Keep up the good job

JoomlaCloner was too difficult for me to get working properly out of the box. But the support is second to none and almost instantaneous. Very quickly and in spite of some very dumb tricks on my part we had a large site transferred from shared hosting to a virtual server, in its entirety and with no issues (thanks to Ovidiu). This has saved days of tedious work. Well worth the money.

This is my first public review, and I just must say how happy I'm with this component!

Are you thinking of buying it. Stop thinking and just buy...

It costs money, and it's worth it! Every cent.

I've moved different sites of mine, and had few problems. When a problem occurs I contact Joomlaplug/ Ovidiu and they fix it. That easy!

Last time I got an error I didn't understand at all, and Ovidiu fixed it within the hour. It had to do with different MySQL server versions, and without help I had been lost. With help I was saved.

Thank you Ovidiu for all help!

Go buy!

I could see that it was a product worth having from it's description, but would it work?
After purchasing it, I had some issues that stopped me from getting success (my problems, NOT the products problems)

I logged onto the support site and got an answer to my questions within an hour of posting them. When I STILL couldn't make sense of what to do (once again, MY problems NOT the products) they got right in there for me and fixed it.

Brilliant!

Honestly, this does what it says on the tin! It makes backing up and restoring a snap and if things don't go as you expect (my webhost's memory limit was set ridiculously low) the support is friendly and lightning fast - not to say 'supportive' - and sadly that's rare these days.

The best £26 I've spent in a very long time.

This would be a relatively good product. Unfortunately the way its licensed can cause problems. I have had to reinstall it several times when it just stops working and this seems to be related to the encryption used in generating the cron job php file. Every time you need you add a sub-domain you have to go online to Joomlaplug and generate a new code, what a real pain this is! Beware also that if you choose to purchase the product with only the 1 year support this is essentially a subscription service. When it expires, you won't be able to generate any new codes for your sites or sub-domains unless you cough more dollars! I'll be looking for a good cron script to use after my subscription expires. This is a good product that is let down by the poor way its licensed which makes it difficult to use and maintain.

This is the first commercial extension I've purchased for my site, and I must say that I'm impressed. Due to hosting limitations I haven't been able to use the full functionality but I'm working with my hosting company to allow Cron backups.

I did have problems initially, however. I read the instructions carefully but was unable to back up any files. There were a number of reasons for this, mostly due to how my hosting company had set up my account. Despite this, the developer was very gracious as he worked with me to resolve the issue. I did have to work to transfer information between the hosting company and the developer, but in the end the issues were all resolved and I was able to successfully back up my site. I never had to wait longer then two hours for a reply from the developer, and often they came much sooner. In fact, on one occasion he sent me a follow-up email with more information and something else I could try.

One reason my backup was ultimately successful was the number of backup options that are available. I ended up using the most manual process, but even that is no worse then clicking two links. If you have better control over your hosting account than I have, you can go so far as to fully automate the backups through a Cron job and speed up the process by using server utilities to tar or zip your files. Even my manual backup, with over 4000 files, took less than ten minutes. Another option that I will be testing is the ability to have finished backups automatically FTPed to another server for off-site storage. There is even the option to age backups and automatically remove the older ones.

Cloning is another nice feature. If you need to move your Joomla site to another host, simply clone it. The current site will be backed up, FTPed to the new host, and once you've entered the MySQL login information the backup will be automatically restored on the new host. This sounds like a great way to launch a live site after it's been developed in a test area.

Based on the number of backup and restore options, and especially the outstanding customer support, I would highly recommend JoomlaCloner.

Fantastic component, instant and helpful service that goes beyond the call of duty and a product that saves you hours of stuffing around :)

very glad i bought joomla cloner.

-Dan

Since I work on my sites daily, I do frequent backups and then store these backup files on my computer and external hard drives.

I recently had a few questions on the right method to restore a backup to a site that I basically blew up … had a few things I was experimenting with.

I submitted a support ticket and Ovidiu was on top of things in no time. With each question, I was guided step by step until I had my website back up and running.

I originally bought the JoomlaCloner Unlimited Support & Upgrades package and I’ll tell you that after today, I’m really happy that I made that investment into my business.

Once again, thank you for all your help Ovidiu,

Bob

Makes backups a breeze - and superior support!!

Hope the restore option works as easily (didn't want to test :) )