Part I. User's Guide to Akeeba Backup for
Joomla!™
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Introducing Akeeba Backup
- What can I use Akeeba Backup for?
- A typical backup/restoration work flow
- Server environment requirements
- 2. Installation, updates and upgrades
- Installing Akeeba Backup
- Installing or manually updating the extension
- Install from URL
- Upload and install.
- Manual installation
- Troubleshooting the installation
- The installation / update broke my site!
- Upgrading from Core to Professional
- Automatic updates
- Troubleshooting the update
- Addressing server issues
- Check the validity of your Download ID
- Check your subscription status
- Multiple Professional edition Akeeba extensions with
different Download IDs
- Entering or changing your Download ID after an update is
available
- Updates are showing after installing the latest
version
- Updates not showing despite having an older version
- Check the update site
- Refresh the update cache
- Miscellaneous troubleshooting and information
- The update fails to download
- Updating with a third party service fails
- Manual update
- Update installation problems
- Entering your Download ID
- Uninstalling Akeeba Backup
- Requesting support and reporting bugs
- 3. Using the Akeeba Backup component
- Menu items
- Control Panel
- Backup
- Configuration
- Manage Backups
- Restore Latest Backup
- Site Transfer Wizard
- What to do if you don't have any menu items to Akeeba
Backup
- Pages outside the Control Panel panes
- Common navigation elements
- The Control Panel
- Warning and error messages in the Control Panel
- Editing the component's Options
- Basic Operations
- Profiles Management
- Configuration Wizard
- Configuration
- The main settings
- Basic Configuration
- Advanced configuration
- Site overrides
- Optional filters
- Quota management
- Fine tuning
- Database dump engines
- Native MySQL Backup Engine
- File and directories scanner engines
- Smart scanner
- Large site scanner
- Archiver engines
- ZIP format
- JPA format
- Encrypted Archives (JPS format)
- DirectFTP
- DirectFTP over cURL
- DirectSFTP
- DirectSFTP over cURL
- ZIP using ZIPArchive class
- Data processing engines
- No post-processing
- Send by email
- Upload to Amazon S3
- Upload to BackBlaze B2
- Upload to Box.com
- Upload to CloudMe
- Upload to DreamObjects
- Upload to Dropbox (v2 API)
- Upload to Google Drive
- Upload to Google Storage (JSON API)
- Upload to Google Storage (Legacy S3 API)
- Upload to OneDrive (LEGACY)
- Upload to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business
- Upload to Microsoft Windows Azure BLOB Storage
service
- Upload to OVH Object Storage
- Upload to OpenStack Swift object storage
- Upload to RackSpace CloudFiles
- Upload to Remote FTP server
- Upload to Remote FTP server over cURL
- Upload to Remote SFTP server
- Upload to Remote SFTP server over cURL
- Upload to SugarSync
- Upload to iDriveSync
- Upload to WebDAV
- Backup now
- Troubleshooting backup issues
- Backup fails after switching to another browser tab,
browser window or application
- Where are my backup files?
- How can I download my backup files?
- Why do I get warnings about unreadable files or
folders?
- I got an "AJAX loading error" when backing up. What
should I do?
- My backup files are not being uploaded to Amazon
S3
- How do I know that my backup archive works?
- What happens if I have a backup or restoration
problem?
- Manage Backups
- Integrated restoration
- Manage remotely stored files
- Discover and import archives
- Import archives from S3
- View Log
- Include data to the backup
- Multiple Databases Definitions
- Off-site Directories Inclusion
- Exclude data from the backup
- Files and Directories Exclusion
- Database Tables Exclusion
- RegEx Files and Directories Exclusion
- Regular Expressions recipes for files and
directories
- RegEx Database Tables Exclusion
- Regular Expressions recipes for database tables
- Automating your backup
- Taking backups automatically
- Front-end backup, for use with CRON
- Remote JSON API
- Native CRON script
- Alternative CRON script
- Checking for failed backups automatically
- Front-end backup failure check, for use with CRON
- CRON script for backup failure check
- Alternative CRON script for backup failure check
- Site Transfer Wizard
- 4. Miscellaneous Extensions (Modules, Plugins)
- Action Log
- Installer
- Quick Icon
- Backup on Update
- 5. Restoring backups and general guidelines
- General guidelines for backing up and restoring your
site
- Guidelines for storing your backups remotely / "cloud
backup"
- Overview of the backup restoration procedure
- Extracting your backup archives
- Using the integrated restoration feature (most
common)
- Using Akeeba Kickstart
- Using third party software
- ANGIE: Akeeba Backup's restoration scripts
- Common instructions for all ANGIE installers
- The session fix page
- The password page
- The main page
- The database restoration page
- Off-site directories restoration page
- The “Finished” page
- ANGIE for Joomla!
- First page
- Site setup page
- ANGIE for Miscellaneous PHP Applications
- First page
- Site setup page
- Restoration (ANGIE) troubleshooting
- ANGIE reports that the session write path and the
installation directory is unreadable
- PHP errors , warnings, notices or a blank page upon accessing
ANGIE / restoration
- Some required or optional settings are red in ANGIE's first
page
- I can't restore my database, or receive AJAX Error, timeout
or other errors while restoring my database with ANGIE
- I restored my database but can't proceed to the next page of
ANGIE
- My configuration.php wasn't written to disk after ANGIE
ran
- Any other ANGIE error
- Troubleshooting restored sites
- Common issues on restored sites and how to solve them
- Common issues on restored sites due to PHP incompatibilities
between the source and target server
- When updating the restored site, the original site changes as
well (Entangled web sites)
- Clicking on a link on the restored site takes me to the
original site (link migration issues)
- Issues arising from your computer configuration, browser,
ISP, antivirus and firewall incompatibilities
- Unorthodox: the emergency restoration procedure
- 6. Information for removed or canceled features
- Microsoft OneDrive for Business [THIS ARTICLE IS NO LONGER
VALID]