Sym0n
It installed nicely and when run manually backed up my site and database as described...but the description and the documentation isn't written very well in my opinion. I thought I'd be able to run a CRON job to automate these backups (the only reason for me to have this extension) and only after searching and hunting around, after hours of going back and forth from cPanel to the documentation, did I manage to find out through one of many searches on the support forum that this function is only available in the pro paid for version. Now that's fair enough, but at least make it plainly simple to everyone that the core version is manual only.
Backing up my site files isn't a difficult task and something I do manually via FTP once a week anyway and I already have MySQLDumper (a fantastic free program) to carry out nightly automatic, via CRON, database backups...so for me I'm afraid that this extension is pointless. So now it's uninstalled.
I'm not angry, just disappointed.
Not well written documentation?! How do you know that if you never read it AT ALL? I know you never bothered reading it, because the first section in the "Automating Your Backup" chapter is titled "Front-end backup". This feature is available in the Core release and this chapter contains step-by-step instructions for creating a backup CRON job for your site: http://is.gd/dQ6jO You should have read the documentation or asked in our forum. We're there 24/7 and we do it for free.
BTW, Akeeba Backup is not for lazy people. It's for smart people who understand that being tied up 90 minutes in front of a PC to perform a single site backup is stupid when it can be done in 2 minutes without requiring their presence in front of the PC. It's all a matter of perspective.
Hi Symon,
Feel free to contact me, I'd be glad to help out.