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Joomla question: which extension for backup you suggest me to use?

11 Aug 2009

11 Aug, 2009  Download Joomla Extensions


Exactly what are you backing up and what are you using to do it?

With Joomexplorer yo can quickly zip up your site and save it locally. With FTP you can download it all directly.

Remember that the database needs backing up too using whatever backend database control panel utility (eg. phpMyAdmin) you have installed under your webspace backend (eg. cpanel, plesk).

In phpMyAdmin this is done using the Export tab. Select All in the Export selection window and click the ‘Save as file’ and ‘gzip’ boxes at the foot of the page.

This gzip can be then imported either to a new database on another remote server (web host) or localhost (your PC) in the same utility.

If you use the same setup (database name, admin name and password) and you can perform a complete restore with the gzipped database and the zipped website!

All the best,
Mike

PS .bak - this is a classic and widely used extension for backups but it dosen’t really matter so long as the imformation inside is the right type and can be extract once again :-)

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  1. Mike G

    2009 Aug 11 1

    Exactly what are you backing up and what are you using to do it?

    With Joomexplorer yo can quickly zip up your site and save it locally. With FTP you can download it all directly.

    Remember that the database needs backing up too using whatever backend database control panel utility (eg. phpMyAdmin) you have installed under your webspace backend (eg. cpanel, plesk).

    In phpMyAdmin this is done using the Export tab. Select All in the Export selection window and click the ‘Save as file’ and ‘gzip’ boxes at the foot of the page.

    This gzip can be then imported either to a new database on another remote server (web host) or localhost (your PC) in the same utility.

    If you use the same setup (database name, admin name and password) and you can perform a complete restore with the gzipped database and the zipped website!

    All the best,
    Mike

    PS .bak - this is a classic and widely used extension for backups but it dosen’t really matter so long as the imformation inside is the right type and can be extract once again :-)
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