Akeeba Backup

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Introduction

Backup, Site Security

Akeeba Backup Core is the most widely used open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server, making it ideal not only for backups but also for site transfers or even deploying sites to your clients' servers.

Akeeba Backup creates a full backup of your site in a single archive. The archive contains all the files, a database snapshot and an installer similar in function to the standard Joomla! installer. The backup and restore process is AJAX powered to avoid server timeouts, even with huge sites. Alternatively, you can make a backup of only your database, or only your files. Akeeba Backup is the reliable, easy to use, open source backup solution for your Joomla! site.

Akeeba Backup 9 is actively supported on Joomla! 4 and Joomla! 5. Akeeba Backup 8 for Joomla! 3 is on security maintenance (no new features or bug fixes will be released).

Features:

Automatic configuration with the Configuration Wizard.
The fastest and most reliable native PHP backup engine.
One click backups, available as backend menu items or a Joomla control panel quick icon.
Restore with Akeeba Kickstart (free of charge script): restore extracting the backup directly on the server; no need to upload thousands of files by FTP!
Multiple backup profiles with independently managed configuration options.
Choose between standard ZIP or highly efficient JPA archive format.
Exclude specific files, folders.
Exclude specific database tables or their contents.
Archives can be restored on any host. Useful for transferring your site between subdomains/hosts or even to/from your local testing server (e.g. XAMPP, WAMPServer, MAMP, etc).

and much, much more!

Note: The Akeeba Backup Core component, its documentation and its video tutorials are free of charge. Support for the software and an edition with advanced features (not listed above) are, however, not free of charge. If you are filing a review please make sure that it concerns the Akeeba Backup Core edition and the features we make available free of charge, in line with the Joomla Extension Directory's rules. Thank you!

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Saved the day!

Dag Ove Hoel (2).
Posted on 17 September 2007

Jpack just saved my day!

After some days downtime I finally had some time to fix my web. Luckily I had a jpack backup, and after locating it on the server it was no problem at all to restore my site.

Yay to JoomlaPack!!

Most Excellent!!!!

William the Artist (6).
Posted on 14 September 2007

I create Charity Malls for charities - I have to build each mall one at a time...thanks to this component I can now build one Master Copy and duplicate it for each charity. What would take me days to create one mall now takes me what seems like a blink of an eye.

I thank you and I know the charities that have been backlogged waiting for me to build their Charity Mall thank you too.

The ease of using this from novice (just pay attention and read manual) to experienced is wonderful, and now that I see the developers are putting together a support site for this component - I know that it will only get better. I recommend this to anyone who has a Joomla based site for back ups, transferring and anyone who needs to distribute, as in my case (which I do for free for charities), a customized Joomla package.

What a good Component!

Willem (1).
Posted on 11 September 2007

Hello,

I've been using Joomla for a long time. I have always backed-up my site trough FTP or trough the host-backup utility. For me it was a very frustating work because the ftp connexxion wasn't very reliable. Also it was a hard job to convert my site to a local installation.

Now I found out of JoomlaPack and it's a pies of a cake! Just have to backup trough JoomlaPack, download the created Zip package and extract it to your local folder. Open you website like http://localhost/mywebsitefolder/installation. Follow the steps and in no time the website is installed locally with the mysql database!

Thanks for creating this component developers!!

I am impressed

Ed Rowland (1).
Posted on 03 September 2007

I tested this for the first time today. At first I didn`t follow the instrustion so it didn`t work. Thats normal. Then when I removed the Config.php everything went perfect. This is a great time saver. Keep up the good work guys and thanks for the great backup. Here in Germany it is not always easy to get good joomla stuff in German. But this makes things easy no more long translations.

This is the best!

Larry (2).
Posted on 29 August 2007

Exactly what we needed. I do advise people to read the PDF. When I did that I had no trouble at all. This makes me feel quite a lot more secure now, with all the hacking that goes on. What astonishes me is how easy it is to migrate a site. I wanted to be able to keep a current copy on my local computer for testing purposes and it is so easy and so fast. Full marks for this one. If they ever add a chron capability to this it would be out of this world.

Great and Easy

Henk von Pickartz (6).
Posted on 27 August 2007

An easy tool to use, creates good backups, but I didn't find a way to download them except thru FTP... But at least I had a complete backup of the site!

One thing that should/could be made better is the error handling that you have to disable in the Joomla Config, if not you might have to wait a long time before you understand that it broke somewhere because of a php error/warning.

Great tool, needs some HTML makeup though :-) but I can live without that because the backups are good.

JoomlaPack a very helpful package

Rudolf Lehn (1).
Posted on 20 August 2007

Don't worry anymore to backup and restore your Joomla-Site. JoomlaPack is really simply to use and the restore also works without any problems.

I backed up my Joomla website which running (www.sfz-bw.de) and tried to install it locally to test a backup with JoomlaPack. I am running 1.0.12 and the backup worked PERFECTLY!

I am posting my steps I made:

1] Install the component and backup your website.

2] Download the backup file to your htdocs/location. This file must then be unzipped in the desired location. Rename the directory as i.e. Joomla

3] Now, point your browser to http://localhost:8888/Joomla/installation/

where there is the exact location of your unzipped files.

4] You will notice a joomla installation screen. On my localhost I used the following parameters for the

MySQL database configuration

Host Name: localhost:8889

MySQL User Name: root

MySQL Password: root

MySQL Database Name: sfz_joomla

MySQL Table Prefix: jos_

5] Remove the installation folder.

9) To use the admin program use the same username and and password as in the source Joomla site. The username and password shown by JoomlaPack on the installation screen didn't work!

Recommend + Outside the www

Hicham (1).
Posted on 15 August 2007

I recommend it and suggest that the user changes the path of the backup to be outside the web directory (public_html)/htdocs to be for example "./home/user/backup"

Hence, he/she can safely CHMOD this directory to the writeable state (777) without no fear.

Excellent and Easy To Use*

Paul Featherstone (1).
Posted on 02 August 2007

*if you read the documentation.

After reading the manual I was totaly impressed with how easy to use this component is. Excellent graphical progress bars displaying exactly where you are in the backup. My whole site was easily backed up including all modules, mambots, components and media directories!

Within a few minutes I was able to copy the the file down to my dev laptop and do a test restore. The only tiny issue was with my install of WAMP5, the php.ini had memory limits set to 8M so accessing my Community Builder elements crashed, changed the php.ini memory settings to 128M solved it.

FANTASTIC Component, well done.

Does the Job very nicely :o)

Chris (1).
Posted on 27 July 2007

Nice AJAX Powered Joomla File and Database Backup (just like the description says)

It worked like a charm for me, created one Zip file.

Note: the Database SQL file is in a folder called "sql" in the zip file.

It backs up all tables in the Joomla chosen database, not only the joomla used ones, I liked this, but others may not.

I think restoring should be easy; upload files, import SQL file.

4/5 Stars as the homepage needs work, FAQ and Documentation is minimal. If anybody has spare time, help the developer.

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Akeeba Backup

Version:: 10.0.2
Developer:: Akeeba Ltd
Last updated:: Mar 07 2025
3 months ago
Date added:: Jun 05 2007
License:: GPLv2 or later
Type:: Free download
Includes:: c m p
Compatibility:: J3 J4 J5

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