The component which boldly goes beyond backup.

Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

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An extension which is around since 2006. Millions of downloads. Countless praise in the Joomla! Extensions Directory. Three J.O.S.C.A.R. awards. A single goal: backup, restore and transfer your site in a snap!

Compatible with Joomla 3, Joomla 4 and Joomla 5.

Akeeba Backup Core

for Joomla!

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Akeeba Backup Professional

for Joomla!

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Top Features

One click backup

That's all it takes to create a full site backup. The archive includes your database, files and the restoration script.

Multiple formats available

Standard ZIP archives, highly optimised JPA archives or AES-128 secured JPS archives. It's your choice.

Customizable Backup Profiles

You get to choose what should be left out of the backup. Files or tables. And with multiple backup profiles you only set it up once.

Automatic Configuration

Akeeba Backup configures itself, optimally for your server. Have a problem? ALICE, our automated log analyser, will provide you with the right solution based on our years-long experience.

Migrate. Move. Duplicate.

Migrate your site to a different server. Move it to a different location. Or create an exact clone. With Akeeba Backup, it's a piece of cake!

Take it to the Cloud

PRO What good is a backup if your server goes down forever? Don't risk! Let Akeeba Backup automatically copy it to the Cloud. Built-in support for Amazon S3, DropBox and much more!

Automatic Backups

PRO Akeeba Backup can take backups automatically. With five different automation ways, one is always compatible with your site. Let it backup and sleep tight!

All Features

Akeeba Backup for Joomla! Core Professional
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One-click backup

Backup your entire site and its database with a single click.

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Self-contained backup archives

Restoration script included in the backup archive

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Automatic configuration

Automatically fine-tune the configuration to suit your preferences and server setup.

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Customize Permissions

ACL: fine-grained permissions, controlling which Akeeba Backup features each user can access.

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Multiple formats available

Generate standard ZIP or custom JPA format backup archive files, including split ZIP

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Native CLI backup script

Allows scheduled (CRON) backups. Runs even when your web server is inaccessible.

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Joomla CLI integration

Take and manage backups using the Joomla CLI application (cli/joomla.php)

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Remote Backup and Management API

Used by Akeeba Remote CLI, Akeeba UNiTE and third party services to take and download backups from outside your site.

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Legacy Front-End Backups

Allows scheduled (CRON) and remote backups. Requires third-party software (e.g. curl or wget) and web access.

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Joomla Scheduled Tasks

Schedule backups on your site using Joomla's Scheduled Task manager. No third party service necessary!

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Manage Backups

Administer your backup files (download, delete).

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Exclude files, directories, databases

Exclude things from your backup by selecting individual items

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Optimized database dump (Extended INSERTs)
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Backup MySQL PROCEDUREs, FUNCTIONs and TRIGGERs
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Amazon S3 support

Send your backup archives to Amazon S3. Supports all storage classes (including Glacier) and EC2 provisioned credentials. Support third party S3-compatible services.

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Microsoft Azure BLOB Storage support

Send your backup archives to Microsoft Azure BLOB Storage.

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BackBlaze B2 support

Send your backup archives to BackBlaze B2.

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Box.com support

Send your backup archives to Box.com.

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RackSpace CloudFiles support

Send your backup archives to RackSpace CloudFiles.

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CloudMe support

Send your backup archives to CloudMe.

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DreamHost DreamObjects support

Send your backup archives to DreamHost DreamObjects.

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Dropbox support

Send your backup archives to Dropbox. Supports personal Dropbox, team folders and Dropbox for Business.

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Send backup archives by email

Send your backup archives by email. Due to email restrictions you should use split archives with each part file being under 10 to 20MB.

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FTP / SFTP support

Send your backup archives or even directly your site's files (not archived) to remote servers using FTP / SFTP.

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Google Drive support

Send your backup archives to Google Drive. Supports personal drives and Team Drives.

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Google Storage support

Send your backup archives to Google Storage. Supports both access methods, S3 compatibility (legacy) and Google Storage JSON API (most modern and faster).

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iDriveSync support

Send your backup archives to iDriveSync.

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OneDrive support

Send your backup archives to OneDrive. Supports personal OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and OneDrive drives with education or organization Office 365 subscriptions.

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OVH support

Send your backup archives to OVH cloud storage.

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SugarSync support

Send your backup archives to SugarSync.

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OpenStack Swift support

Send your backup archives to any server compatible with OpenStack Swift.

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WebDAV support

Send your backup archives to any server compatible with WebDAV including 40+ cloud storage providers not listed above.

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Local Quota Management

Prevent your web server from getting too full by automatically deleting old backup archives based on age or total size. Allows keeping archives taken on a specific date of the month.

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Remote Quota Management

Prevent your cloud server from getting too full with our remote backup quota management. Supports all options of the local quota management and applies them to the remotely stored files.

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Restore from within the component

(full-site backup archives only)

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Encrypted configuration

Configuration encrypted with strong 128-bit AES cryptography

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Encrypted Archives

AES-128 encrypted archives (JPS format)

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Manual transfer of your site

By uploading the backup archive and our single-file archive extraction tool, Kickstart

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Site Transfer Wizard

Easier transfer of your backup archives to a new location over FTP

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Backup only your site's database or only your files
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Incremental files-only backup
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Import arbitrary archive files
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Regular expressions (PCRE) file, directory and database filters.
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Automatically exclude non-Joomla! database tables.
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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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Fully unattended backup restoration

Using our Akeeba UNiTE command line script.

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