Backup Joomla

[_Bat_]

Having spent well over 100 hours in total on just one website (which is kindof going live tonight but is no-where near complete yet), having a previous history of my websites being hacked (several of mine on the same server were taken in one go) does not bode well with me.

 

Does anyone know a free way of backing up my joomla website? I'm aware of joomla cloner, but that you have to pay for. If neccessary, I will pay for it, but need to know it really is necessary first. I told the schools I work for that the only thing they would have to pay for is the hosting for the website, everything else I would provide (either open source/free or do it myself).

 

Cheers

 

James

[alan-d]

All I ever do is copy all the files from the server and backup the DB and keep them safe on my home PC and a USB stick. Then if the site goes down it's easy to ftp the files back and restore the DB. I use phpMyAdmin which makes backing up and restoring the DB a lot easier.

[webman]

Yeah, best method I think Alan-D - keep it simple. Files + database. Once you start getting into these automated things there is more chance of errors

[Guest]

Agree with the above. Just backup the folders via FTP and export the DB to txt file.

[mtdmitchell]

hi

 

as well as backing up the root folder i use a component called e_backup which will automatically email you the .sql dump file or back it up to a directory of your choice.

[meyrick]

e_backup i have used in the past and would say its user friendly and straight forward to use.