Credits: Video Training produced by Brian Teeman
Transcript of this course
Akeeba Solo can do more just backup a single web site it can also backup files and sites that exist above your web root.
There are 2 occasions where you may do this.
If you have a downloads folder that you are protecting by keeping above the web root you want to make sure you back that up as well.
You may also have installed an additional web site perhaps a subdomain for a forum and you want to make sure that in your Akeeba Solo backup you include the forum as well the Drupal web site.
If we scroll down we can see there are two options for including data in the backup.
One for databases and one for directories.
To begin with let's look at the databases.
So select Multiple Databases Definition.
Here we can add the details of the additional databases that we want to backup.
We do not need to give any information for our Drupal web site database as this automatic.
Click on the small plus icon And a popup opens asking for the connection details for your database you should have this from your web host.
First enter the database driver the hostname the username, the password, and finally the name of the database you wish to backup.
Click on Test Connection.
When you have a success message click Save.
You've now configured Akeeba Solo to include this additional database in your backup.
We now want to include the files.
So let's return to our Control Panel and select the Off-site Directories Inclusion.
Again click on the small plus icon and then click on the folder icon.
Here we can see that we have in our hosting account three folders.
Downloads, where I am storing the off-site downloads, forum, for my phpBB forum, and public_html which is where my current Drupal web site is installed.
If I want to include the downloads folder simply select it and then select Use and click on the Save icon.
Let's repeat that for the forum by clicking on the plus, browse, selecting the forum, and selecting Use.
Finally Save.
Now we have added our external database for the forum and our two folders for the downloads and the forum itself.
Let's go back to the Control Panel and perform our new backup.
Once the Backup is complete go to Manage Backups and download it to your computer.
We're now ready to look at the restoration process of this Akeeba Backup.
I'm going to use my ftp program to connect to a new server where I am going to restore this backup.
I am using filezilla, but you could use any ftp program, to connect to the new server.
As you can see my new server has a public_hmtl folder where my web site would live and if I navigate in you can see that its empty.
Let's take the backup file and copy that across to our new server.
Finally let's take our kickstart.php file and copy that across as well.
Now let's return to our web browser and complete the restoration.
Go to the special url for the kickstart.php file close this message and begin.
We can see it has selected the archive file and we can let the Akeeba Backup kickstart program extract the files to our web server.
Once that has completed we can run the installer.
As with all Akeeba Backup restorations the installer checks that our server is suitable and then we can click Next.
We are now ready to restore the site's main database.
the one for your Drupal web site.
Click Next to Continue.
Here we have an additional screen.
We can see here that this screen is to setup the extra database the one for our phpbb forum.
So here make sure you enter the correct details for the forum The installer is now ready to restore your Downloads folder to above the web root.
Click Next and the files will be copied and do the same again for the forum folder.
Finally complete the rest of the site setup as you would do normally.
The final step is to remove the copy of the external folders from inside our public_html web space.
To do this return to filezilla.
Here we can see that the forum and the downloads folders were successfully copied and if we go into the public_html where our Drupal web site is we can see a folder called external_files.
We no longer need this folder so we can delete it.
So by using the multiple database definitions and the off-site directories inclusion feature.
We can use Akeeba Backup Professional to not only backup our web site but to backup all the other websites within our hosting as well.