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:
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| Help and support | ||
| Free, fast (maximum 24h response time) support from JoomlaPack staff through our public forum |  |
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| Private support directly on your server by the lead developer Note: this feature requires a separate subscription to Enhanced Support. |
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| Developer's assistance on "difficult" support requests; you'll never be left out in the cold, wondering how to make it work! | |
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| Free, unrestricted access to the product's documentation | |
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| Akeeba Backup Component Features | ||
| Backup your entire site and its database with a single click | |
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| Restoration script (Akeeba Backup Installer) included in the backup archive We are the only ones to offer self-contained backup archives |
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| User interface translations into many languages (installed separately, available for free from our site) |
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| Fine-tune the configuration to suit your preferences and server setup | |
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| Generate standard ZIP or custom JPA format backup archive files, including split ZIP/JPA | |
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| Optimized database dump (Extended INSERTs) | |
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| 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 |
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Scripts for use in CRON scheduling |
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| Multiple backup profiles | |
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| Backup only your site's database or only your files |
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| Administer your backup files (download, delete) | |
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Restore your backup files from within the component |
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| Exclude arbitrary directories, files or directory contents (individual item selection) |
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| Exclude database tables or table contents only (individual item selection) |
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| Regular expressions (PCRE) file, directory and database filters | |
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| Option to exclude non-Joomla! database tables |
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| Exclude components, modules, plug-ins, templates and languages with a single click | |
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| Include extra MySQL databases in the backup set | |
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| Include off-site directories in the backup set | |
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| Cloud Backup Store your backups on leading Cloud Storage provides, currently Amazon S3 and DropBox |
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| Kickstart | ||
| Extract archives on server, making site restoration or migration to a new server a child's play | |
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| Automatically works around "permissions hell" (reqs. FTP mode to be activated) |
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| Automatically disables .htaccess during restoration and enables it afterwards | |
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| Support for ZIP and JPA archives, including split ZIP and split JPA | |
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| EXCLUSIVE Smart solutions for increased security |
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| Extract your backup archives on your PC, using eXtract Wizard | |
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| Backup your sites from your desktop, using Akeeba Remote Control | |
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| Detect unauthorized and changed files before it's too late with SiteDiff | |
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Download Akeeba Backup Core for free and experience the revolution in backup technology of Joomla!-powered web sites today!
