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Backing up Joomla Website

  • 25-05-2019 10:33AM
    #1
    YourName
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭


    I have 2 small Joomla websites (One for a business and the other for a charity), one is hosted on GoDaddy and the other on LetsHost. What is the most comprehensive / best way to back up these websites, If all went wrong and all was lost I want to have a seperate copy of both that I could restore the websites with. Now these websites don't change much so I don't need something that would back up at regular intervals, just a way of backing up manually and keeping a copy of the website on a hard drive just in case.

    I seen on the hosting website there was an option of back up and I have also heard of Akeeba, but I don't know what is best.
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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    YourName wrote: »
    I have 2 small Joomla websites (One for a business and the other for a charity), one is hosted on GoDaddy and the other on LetsHost. What is the most comprehensive / best way to back up these websites, If all went wrong and all was lost I want to have a seperate copy of both that I could restore the websites with. Now these websites don't change much so I don't need something that would back up at regular intervals, just a way of backing up manually and keeping a copy of the website on a hard drive just in case.

    I seen on the hosting website there was an option of back up and I have also heard of Akeeba, but I don't know what is best.

    Take it that you read the joomla documentation on this, it's been a long time since I worked with joomla, but it should be a database backup, and an ftp backup of the actual directories and files to your own machine or another storage location.


  • #3
    mneylon
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    Joomla is just PHP files and a database
    So backing it up shouldn't be that complicated.
    Most hosting providers offer some form of backup service that you can use

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  • #4
    shane7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭shane7


    Install Akeeba backup on the backend of your site. Its easy to install and simple to backup your site with it.

    https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/akeeba-backup/

    If you want 100% piece of mind go for the pro-version as you can backup the site locally such as to dropbox but in most cases such as a bad update the free version is fine. But akeeba is a must for any joomla site its an excellent extension

    Personally I use the free version and keep a backup of my sites on my local server.

    I use joomla all the time so if you have any more questions feel free to ask.


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