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• boniaditya commented  ·  December 30, 2012 11:24 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Akeeba rocks. Their documentation is perfect. I have used akeeba time and again to create my own joomla distros and distribute them to my friends along with the documentation to restore them. I don't see why joomla needs it to be in the core when you have such an awesome extension that works seamlessly with joomla.

• Argenis Leon commented  ·  December 10, 2012 7:56 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Use Akeeba. I have used in 150 + sites. Excellent component!

• Sheikh Pervez Hameed commented  ·  September 21, 2012 11:22 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  very much required

• Alston Chapman commented  ·  May 13, 2012 2:47 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I have to say, I think Akeeba backup does it's job 100%, and it not only backs up sites but it also makes it easy as all get-out to transfer a site to a new host.

  @Nicholas Dionysopoulos - your Akeeba is so good that I don't think this needs to be built into joomla at all. Thanks for creating it, and your tutorials are very concise and to the point.

• Valery commented  ·  November 28, 2011 2:06 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Thus a build-in backups would be one of the perfect things Joomla! needs.

• Nicholas Dionysopoulos commented  ·  October 14, 2011 7:53 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Well, yeah, I am since 5 years ago. It's called Akeeba Backup Core, it's free of charge, works great and has over 1,000 five star reviews on the JED. Why it's not in the core? First it's the license (Joomla! is GPL v2 or later, mine is GPL v3 or later, if you distribute them together they both become GPL v3 or later, so GPLv2 extensions automatically become illegal - not a good idea). But the most important reason is that without user feedback and a short release cycle, a backup solution can never be considered "stable". This can not be achieved in the Joomla! core, but can be achieved by having Akeeba Backup Core as a separate project. Plus, nobody asked me to submit it as a proposed core feature :)

• harry commented  ·  October 14, 2011 7:07 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Is there somebody working on it..

• Webdongle commented  ·  October 8, 2011 5:51 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Would be great if the free version of Akeeba was part of the standard Joomla install

• Nicholas Dionysopoulos commented  ·  October 7, 2011 11:33 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @TWDesign All of the above already exist for Joomla!. It's called Akeeba Backup Professional and goes beyond what BackupBuddy could ever offer in WP. It does cost 40 Euros, but it's GPL. Since you're talking about contracts, just spend 40 Euros once per year and factor that cost into the price of all your contracts. With a few dimes per contract you have more than what WP and Drupal can offer for backups.

• TWDesign commented  ·  October 7, 2011 8:08 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Something like the BackupBuddy extension for WordPress would be a dream.

  We need the ability to :
  - Do full backups (including files)
  - Do just database backups
  - Schedule automatic backups
  - Choose where to send those backups (store locally / email / Amazon etc)
  - Provide a server & domain migration assistance tool to help moving development sites into a live production environment.

  Drupals Backup & Migrate extension does some of these things but not all (doesnt have the full file backup options).

  When Joomla can do all of that natively, you'll start to win over converts.

• Raj commented  ·  September 16, 2011 3:55 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  what is this all about ?

• Canada 3000 commented  ·  September 6, 2011 3:22 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This is a great idea. Creating a core backup component would be amazing and developers can create the plugin or whatever other mechanisms buildt into the core joomla backup component to use. Like virtuemart, blog etc.

• Paul_B commented  ·  August 8, 2011 6:37 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Can't for the life of understand why this feature was ever dropped - it was a core part of Manbo and early Joomla versions.

  BRING IT BACK! (And back it up)

• Anonymous commented  ·  July 29, 2011 2:30 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Akeeba backup for core! What else does anyone need

• edwin hessing commented  ·  July 19, 2011 2:55 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Good idea.

  Kind regards,
  Edwin Hessing

• mark chang commented  ·  July 11, 2011 11:31 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  www.siteground.com can update automaticlly

• Carlos Bahiana commented  ·  May 5, 2011 1:07 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Akeeba for core!

• Dan Knauss commented  ·  February 12, 2011 11:27 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I'm not sure how you could do partial backups for specific extensions or "site sections" that would not cause problems when restored. Many extensions are not self-contained and refer to database tables beyond their own.

  I agree that a backup system, while useful, should not be part of the core. Adding a simple way to export content, do an SQL dump, and file system zip would be OK though.

• Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos commented  ·  January 20, 2011 2:00 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Christian, have you ever tried using Akeeba Backup? If not, please do. You will get a very good idea of what this feature should look like, if implemented.

• Christian Sciberras commented  ·  January 20, 2011 1:42 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  What's the point of taking a backup which can't be used? Unless you're taking a full site-wide backup, this just can't work.