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Abstract
This book covers the use of the Akeeba Backup site backup component for Joomla!™ -powered web sites. It does not cover any other software of the Akeeba Backup suite, including Kickstart and the other utilities which have documentation of their own. Both the free Akeeba Backup Core and the subscription-based Akeeba Backup Professional editions are covered.
If you are looking for a quick start to using the component please watch our video tutorials.
Table of Contents
- I. User's Guide to Akeeba Backup for Joomla!™
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Installation, updates and upgrades
- Installing Akeeba Backup
- Upgrading from Core to Professional
- Automatic updates
- Uninstalling Akeeba Backup
- Requesting support and reporting bugs
- 3. Using the Akeeba Backup component
- Menu items
- Pages outside the Control Panel panes
- Basic Operations
- Profiles Management
- Configuration Wizard
- Configuration
- The main settings
- Database dump engines
- File and directories scanner engines
- Archiver engines
- 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
- Import archives from S3
- View Log
- Include data to the backup
- Exclude data from the backup
- Automating your backup
- Site Transfer Wizard
- 4. Miscellaneous Extensions (Modules, Plugins)
- 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
- ANGIE: Akeeba Backup's restoration scripts
- 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
- Error message mentioning utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci when restoring on MariaDB
- 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
- II. Security information
- III. Appendices
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