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Abstract
This is the user manual to Akeeba Backup for Joomla!™ version 9 or later, available on Joomla 4.0 and later.
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
- Downgrades
- Uninstalling Akeeba Backup
- Requesting support and reporting bugs
- 3. Migrating from old versions of Akeeba Backup and Joomla!
- 4. Using the Akeeba Backup component
- Custom administrator 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 and OneDrive for Business
- Upload to OneDrive (LEGACY)
- Upload to OneDrive (App-specific Folder)
- 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
- Import archives from S3
- View Log
- Include data to the backup
- Exclude data from the backup
- Automating your backup
- Site Transfer Wizard
- Akeeba Backup and the Joomla! custom public folder feature
- Implementing incremental backups
- Remote Storage and OAuth2 Helpers
- 5. Akeeba Backup Command Line Interface (CLI)
- 6. Miscellaneous Extensions (Modules, Plugins)
- 7. 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 script
- 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
- 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
- II. Security information
- III. Appendices
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