Joomla Backups via Rockettheme?
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- surfingcaliforniacoastline
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I just built my first “Joomla” website and I am about 2-3 weeks away from switching over from my current old and busted website to my new Hotness Joomla website, but the only problem I have is that I don’t have any backup/restore plan in place yet.
My current websites (Godaddy – Website Tonight) has it built in and it truly has saved my @$$ many times. So now that I am go to be switching over all my websites to self-hosting, I really need to make sure I have a solid backup plan in place.
So can anyone tell me if there is any module or plugin available from RocketTheme that I can use to backup and restore my Joomla sites?
I’m steering towards Akeeba Backup but I thought I would ask the forum first to see what everybody else is doing...
Here are just three of many 3rd party extensions I am looking into:
DataSafe PRO: $$$ http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/backup/20003
Akeeba Backup: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/backup/1606
XCloner-Backup and Restore: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/backup/665
Please let me know what your pros and cons are of any backup extension you are using, it would really help me out...
Thanks,
CJ
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- prim
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So can anyone tell me if there is any module or plugin available from RocketTheme that I can use to backup and restore my Joomla sites?
No, we don't have that. I think everyone is using Akeeba Backup these days but as far as i remember XCloner has also been used by RT mods and devs.
I use Akeeba and find it reliable and easy to use. It's also in active development so that's an added bonus
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- CMYKreative
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Akeeba Backup is what we've used from the day it first came out and it works brilliantly. Nicholas is always very helpful with the support offered and answers (most often my own stupid questions lol) very quickly. As Prim says, it's always being developed and updated which is a real bonus.
You might want to think about installing one of their other components, Admin Tools . . . very useful. - CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- David Goode
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I have to say that Akeeba is my own choice and most of my clients can use it without breaking things.
The pro version fee has been recovered many times due to the time saved moving sites and fixing the ones that clients break.
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- surfingcaliforniacoastline
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Thanks to everyone that replied,
I went ahead and went with Akeeba backup the Free Version. I really liked the fact that you could pass the necessary backup parameters via a URL with a Secret Key Word to trigger a manual backup and you can also automate backups via a CRON job. This is definitely a good choice and a money saver to boot...
I even wrote a little app for my android so it will pass the required parameters to a browser and do a manual backup for all my websites individually or ALL of them at any time anywhere... Works sweet!
Here is how to perform automated backups with Akeeba Backup Free version:
(This is not a hack, this is all supported with Akeeba (AKA "free beer") documentation:
https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/akeeba-backup-documentation/automating-your-backup.html )
1) Pass this info in a URL: (easy and simple - can be automated with windows task scheduler in a batch file)
" www.yourwebsite.com/index.php?option=com...secret_key&profile=1 "
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2) create a backup.php file with this info and run a CRON job that calls: /web/cgi-bin/php5 "$HOME/html/backup.php" (assuming this is the path to your backup.php file)
This goes in a backup.php file: (server must support "cURL")
<?php
define('SITEURL', ' www.yourwebsite.com '); // Base URL of your site
define('SECRETKEY', 'Your_Secret_Key'); // Your secret key
define('PROFILE',1); // The profile's ID
// ====================== DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE ======================
$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,
SITEURL.'/index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=backup&key='.
SECRETKEY.'&profile='.PROFILE);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,10000);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
if (empty($buffer))
echo "Sorry, the backup failed!.";
else
echo $buffer;
?>
Here are a few other ways that will also work for CRON:
/usr/bin/wget --max-redirect=10000 " www.yourwebsite.com/index.php?option=com...secret_key&profile=1 "
/web/cgi-bin/php5 --max-redirect=10000 " www.yourwebsite.com/index.php?option=com...secret_key&profile=1 "
curl -b /tmp/cookies.txt -c /tmp/cookies.txt -L --max-redirs 1000 -v " www.yourwebsite.com/index.php?option=com...secret_key&profile=1 "
Thanks again,
Charles Jarzynka - Last Edit: 12 years 11 months ago by surfingcaliforniacoastline.
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- David Goode
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Hi Charles,
Thanks for sharing :cheesy:
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