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Core vs. Professional

There are two editions of Akeeba Backup: Akeeba Backup Core and Akeeba Backup Professional. They are targeting different user groups, based on their experience level and what they want to use Akeeba Backup for.

Akeeba Backup Core is the Free (as in "free speech" and as in "free beer") contains the necessary features to have a complete backup, restoration and site migration solution for your Joomla!-powered websites. It's what 95% of our users will ever use. While it includes all the essential filters, it is missing some of the most advanced features which are appealing only to web professionals. We recommend it for first-time users, regular webmasters and those who want to evaluate the software.

Akeeba Backup Professional, on the other hand, is the distributed for a fee version which has those extra features only useful to non-standard site setups, advanced users and web professionals. We recommend it for power users and web professionals who want to exploit the maximum potential of the software.Akeeba Backup Core has always been available free of charge. As long as people keep donating, this policy won't change. You can donate - and keep Akeeba Backup Core free of charge - by clicking on the donation buttons on this site or in the component's Control Panel. Donations are securely handled by the leading on-line payment service PayPal.To help you decide if Akeeba Backup Professional is worth trying, we have compiled the following comparison table:

Feature Core Professional
Help and support
Free, fast (maximum 24h response time) support from JoomlaPack staff through our public forum Yes Yes
Private support directly on your server by the lead developer
Note: this feature requires a separate subscription to Enhanced Support.
Yes
Yes
Developer's assistance on "difficult" support requests; you'll never be left out in the cold, wondering how to make it work! Yes Yes
Free, unrestricted access to the product's documentation Yes Yes
Akeeba Backup Component Features
Backup your entire site and its database with a single click Yes Yes
Restoration script (Akeeba Backup Installer) included in the backup archive
We are the only ones to offer self-contained backup archives

Yes

Yes
User interface translations into many languages
(installed separately, available for free from our site)

Yes

Yes

Fine-tune the configuration to suit your preferences and server setup Yes Yes
Generate standard ZIP or custom JPA format backup archive files, including split ZIP/JPA Yes Yes
Optimized database dump (Extended INSERTs) Yes Yes
Front-end backup feature allowing scheduled (CRON) backups and backup using PDA / Cell Phone
CRON functionality requires third party software (wget or curl) and web access
Yes Yes

Scripts for use in CRON scheduling

No Yes
Multiple backup profiles Yes Yes
Backup only your site's database or only your files
Yes Yes
Administer your backup files (download, delete) Yes Yes

Restore your backup files from within the component
(full site backup archives only)

No Yes
Exclude arbitrary directories, files or directory contents
(individual item selection)
Yes Yes
Exclude database tables or table contents only
(individual item selection)
Yes Yes
Regular expressions (PCRE) file, directory and database filters No Yes
Option to exclude non-Joomla! database tables

No
partial,
slow

Yes
fully automated,
very fast

Exclude components, modules, plug-ins, templates and languages with a single click No Yes
Include extra MySQL databases in the backup set No Yes
Include off-site directories in the backup set No Yes
Cloud  Backup Store your backups on leading Cloud Storage provides, currently Amazon S3 and DropBox
No

Yes

Kickstart
Extract archives on server, making site restoration or migration to a new server a child's play Yes Yes
Automatically works around "permissions hell"
(reqs. FTP mode to be activated)
Yes Yes
Automatically disables .htaccess during restoration and enables it afterwards Yes Yes
Support for ZIP and JPA archives, including split ZIP and split JPA Yes Yes
EXCLUSIVE Smart solutions for increased security
Extract your backup archives on your PC, using eXtract Wizard Yes Yes
Backup your sites from your desktop, using Akeeba Remote Control Yes Yes
Detect unauthorized and changed files before it's too late with SiteDiff Yes Yes

Download Akeeba Backup Core for free and experience the revolution in backup technology of Joomla!-powered web sites today!

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