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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Excellent tool



Posted on 18 April 2007
This backup tool is really great. I installed this on Joomla 1.0.12, PHP 5.1.6, MySQL 5.0.27 and it works like charm. I chose the multi-step backup and got no timeout problem. Thanks for sharing this. Keep up the good work.

No good



Posted on 15 April 2007
Tried it with SQL v4.x compatibility and after the initial pass of table and content backup, it just sat fat-dumb-and-happy while trying to compress.

Very good



Posted on 09 April 2007
Joomla! Pack does what it claims. This is a new concept for backing up Joomla websites. I love it so much that I had made a Chinese translation for its language file.



Hope it can be better and better. Thank you Nicholas.

excellent



Posted on 01 April 2007
Excellent - works a treat

Excellent Tool



Posted on 23 March 2007
Worked first time for me, just what I needed to transfer the maintenance of some existing live sites to my local development web server.



Obviously had to change

$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://mydomain.com'

to

$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://localhost'

in restored local configuration.php



but otherwise everything just worked. Thanks a lot Nicholas.
First a little background:



I have GoDaddy hosting for one of my websites. I originally set up Joomla through their hostingmetropolis "value applications" feature because I figured it would be easier. Well apparently the MySQL database that they set up for you is not under your hosting but on a different server all-together. Unfortunately they only give you the joomla admin name and password and not the one to database. I wanted to install a component that required use of the same database as the joomla install. Needless to say, I was out of luck. I emailed GoDaddy's support and they told me that they couldn't help me because hostingmetropolis is who sets that up and not them. The kicker here is that hostingmetropolis IS GoDaddy! I emailed them back to ask them how I would go about fixing this problem and they told me to uninstall Joomla from hostingmetropolis and install it manually. So now I'm screwed. I have no access to the raw database because they can't/won't give me the password and I have a ton of content that I need to transfer over to a new Joomla installation that I'm going to manually create. Greaaaaat.



Fast forward to finding the Joomla! Pack...



I install it easy as apple pie, follow the instructions on how to backup my database/mambots/modules/etc. and how to restore them somewhere new. I can't tell you how smoothly this went. I was up and running again in about an hour flat. My only complaints, and they are but a few, as others have said, that whole username and password business when reinstalling (by accessing http://yoursite.com/installation/install.php) is useless. The new Joomla site uses the same exact database as the old one so your original joomla super admin username and passwords are the ones you want to use. I think it's a remnant of their variation of the installer that puts it there, so just keep that in mind and you're fine.



Second complaint, it does NOT keep your Site->Global Configuration settings. I had to go in and turn back on SEF URL's and a few other settings like linking titles of articles. Like I said, nothing major. Other than that, every single mambot, module, addon, doodad, etc were all in place exactly as I had them before.



If I could give this a star rating, it would be a 4 1/2 out of 5. Very minor grievances with an extremely satisfied result in what it does, and the best part about it? It's free. Thank you guys very much, you've saved me immensely. I would never have been able to get all my old data without this!



Sorry for the long review, but I really do endorse this product, it does exactly what it says it's going to do!
Everything went smoothly once I actually *read* the manual. (Hint: When restoring, browse to /installation rather than the Joomla root...) It is thorough and clear, but required reading before attempting a restore.



I needed to move/restore my site to another server and subdirectory, and share my notes for the benefit of those with similar needs:



If you use search friendly URLs (e.g. Artio JoomSEF or OpenSEF (not on extensions.joomla.org but http://projects.j-prosolution.com/projects/os-projects/project-opensef.html), remember to modify the RewriteBase directive in .htaccess.



It's obvious that /configuration.php must be modified, but there are quite a few settings to remember. Off the top of my head: $mosConfig_absolute_path,

$mosConfig_cachepath, $mosConfig_db, $mosConfig_host,

$mosConfig_live_site, $mosConfig_user, $mosConfig_password...



A global search/replace for /oldsubdir to /newsubdir can be useful to alter any absolute URLs in .htaccess, templates or css, provided /oldsubdir is a reasonably uncommon string. I used the freeware editor PSPad for this: Search > Search/replace in files. (Hardcoded absolute URLs in content require similar modification, but I don't know any quick way to do this globally.)
Even with new release backup hangs after 5 to 10%, and comes up with the screen that timeout occured and report the bug, I am not sure where to report the bug as author does not have place report the bugs. I am not sure how others able to backup the sites with this componet.



With multi-step (huge sites) selction backup does not even proceed.



I hope author fixes these problems to make great useful tool.

Works well



Posted on 20 February 2007
I installed it, then used it to pack and download. 50 megs was packed and downloaded in about 5 minutes.



I then uploaded to the new server in a test subdirectory and unpacked the compressed file via the control panel file manager. The upload took the usual 20 minutes. (A question: is secure technology available to do a straight old-server to new-server file transfer without using one's local desktop as an intermediate stopping point?)



I then pointed my browser to the installation subdirectory created during the unpack process. This runs the install program. I had a few password related problems.



Then I remembered that the new server used a different prefix ... old MySQL db was xxxx_site1 , new MySQL db was yyyy_site1. Old MySQL user was xxxx_admin, New MySQL user was yyyy_admin.



So I got around this by

1. Manually creating the new db 'site1' on the new site using the cpanel. This, of course, became db 'yyyy_site1' automatically on the new server.



2. Manually creating the user 'admin' on the new site, which got translated to 'yyyy_admin'. I gave it a password and wrote it down.



3. Manually adding the new user 'admin' to the new db 'site1', with full permissions, naturally.



Then I reran the install program with the MySQL user named 'admin' and the password I had written down.



I spent another few minutes checking out each page, and everything looked good at first glance. Two days later things still look fine.



Perhaps I took the long way, but, even with the few extra steps, it was very easy and fairly quick. My sincere thanks to the author and to those whose testing has refined the component.

easy easy easy



Posted on 17 February 2007
What a great tool. In about 15 minutes, I had installed this on a Joomla site and MAMP on my MacBook Pro. Backed up the site and installed Joomla on my laptop. Site was perfectly replicated. Full marks!
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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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Uses Joomla! Update System

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