How to Back up a Joomla Web Site
Female: Derrick Nupton.
Robbie Ferguson: Hey, Derrick.
Female: Nice things. He’s saying, “I’ve recently found Category5 on Miro. I’m busy downloading and watching your past episodes. The information on there is very useful and I’ve already picked up many new tips.” Thank you. “Going back to several episodes, you’ve covered back in time. I was wondering if these would back up my Joomla based website. If not, what should I be using? I’ve not managed to get to watch a live show yet as it is midnight here in the U.K. when you’re on.” Wow! Hope you’re having a tea. “Keep up all the good work and thanks for your hard work in putting the show together each week.” It’s very nice.
Robbie Ferguson: Derrick thank you very much for you testimonials/question.
Female: Yeah.
Robbie Ferguson: An interesting question too. Back In Time is a back up software for your computer, your desktop computer basically. So when you talk about backing up your Joomla website, it’s a different thing. I’m here talking about something that sitting on the web server. Right?
As you know Category5 Technology TV’s website, Category5.tv we’re actually a Joomla based website. So I’m just going to log in here because we use this amazing package to backup our site.
JoomlaPack, all one word. This is a component for your Joomla based website. And a beautiful thing about this is that you don’t need to set up anything because you just install it into your Joomla website. Right?
When you bring up a component-- Let’s see if I can find it again here or Joomla back up or JoomlaPack. There’s a button that says, backup now that’s what I’m clicking on here.
This is how easy this is backup your site.
Female: Wow!
Robbie Ferguson: Backup your database. And if I’m not mistaken, I believe the backup your database does both one of the other. You can read the manual.
But what the advantage to Joomla package is that it actually gets all of your files for your Joomla website including things that you’ve uploaded using the Media Manager and things like that but it also grabs your database and converts it to whatever and then puts it all into a compressed folder or a compressed file.
Then, if your server ever crashes it goes down or you lose access to your server and you need to move it, you need to access that backup. Not only as a full backup of your database and website files but it also creates an installer for Joomla.
So whatever version of Joomla you had installed, it’s actually going to allow you to reinstall it on a server with all your data, all your users, all of your files just like it was--just like you know-- imagine how much worth that would be to set all data.
Female: That’s amazing.
Robbie Ferguson: It just takes all of that out of backup and restoration.
Female: And what about security issues?
Robbie Ferguson: Such as people accessing it? It’s a component. It’s installed in the Joomla, so it requires administrator access to use it. Right?
JoomlaPack.net, I’m just typing in here. As long as your Joomla site is set up in such a way that you’re protected, you’re not going to have any problems with security there.
I want to download JoomlaPack, great program. I love it that’s why I’m use on my Joomla website.
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services