All current Joomla! versions include the Joomla! Update component (originally developed as part of Admin Tools by our company, later donated to Joomla! and now maintained by the Joomla! team) which allows you to update Joomla! to its latest version. When you are updating between major and minor versions of Joomla! some extensions on your site might experience problems or make your site completely inaccessible. It's always a good idea to take a backup of your site before upgrading Joomla!. Yet, how many times did you forget to do it only to end up with an inaccessible site and a furious client? Our plugin is here to automate this process for you.

When this plugin is enabled it will "see" your attempt to update Joomla! and automatically launch Akeeba Backup to take a backup of your site. Once the backup is successfully complete it will take you back to Joomla! Update, allowing it to install the new Joomla! version. All this happens automatically. You and your clients can no longer forget to take a backup before updating Joomla!: the backup will be taken automatically.

Editing the plugin you will find the sole option, Backup Profile, which lets you define which Akeeba Backup profile to use for these automated backups. If you don't specify anything the default backup profile (the one with ID=1) will be used.

When the plugin is enabled you will see a message reminding you of the status of Backup on Update when you visit the Joomla! Update component. You can temporarily disable (and re-enable) the backup on update feature by clicking the button in that message.