1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 The next thing that I'd like to do is install Akeeba Backup for my Web site. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,000 I'm still here on the Joomla! 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Extensions Directory, I am still looking at the Akeeba Backup listing, and it's 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 important to note that you can click on the link from here to go and download a 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,000 copy of Akeeba Backup. 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Make sure that when you're looking at that extension, that you are looking at an 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 extension that supports Joomla! 3. 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Right now, there are not a lot of extensions that support Joomla! 3. 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 This is one of those that does. 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,000 You will know that it supports Joomla! 3 11 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 right here through the icon here on The Joomla! 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Extensions Directory. 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Alternatively, you can go directly to the developer's Web site. This is the 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000 developer's Web site, which is at akeebabackup.com, and from here, we can go ahead 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 and download a copy of Akeeba Backup. 16 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 So to do this, we are going to go to Download, and I am going to choose Akeeba 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Backup, and here under Akeeba Backup, I am going to scroll down to the most 18 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 recent version, which is 3.6.8, and I am going to read the description, and make 19 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 sure that it talks about the compatibility with Joomla! 3.0. 20 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 This version happens to be compatible with Joomla! 2.5, and Joomla! 3.0, 21 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,000 So now I am going to go ahead and Take me to the downloads for this version, 22 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,000 click on that, and then here we go. Here is Akeeba Backup Core; that's what I 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 want to download, and I am going to click on Download now. 24 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Incidentally, while we're here, I'll mention that Nicholas's documentation for 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Akeeba Backup is both thorough, and extensive, and if you ever have any questions 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 on Akeeba Backup, please read his documentation down here; Documentation in PDF 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,000 format. It will tell you absolutely everything you ever wanted to know about 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Akeeba Backup, and then some. Great documentation. 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 So I am going to go ahead and click Download now here for the Akeeba Core, and 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 this is going to ask to save a zipped file. 31 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Any time you are working with an extension in Joomla, 32 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,000 you are going to see some kind of ZIP. Sometimes it's a .zip like this, 33 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,000 sometimes it will be a .tar, or .gz, which is also another kind of zipped file, so 34 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 it just depends on what the developer has done. All that matters is that it's a 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 zipped file, and that's going to work. 36 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,000 So you are going to go ahead and save this; do not open the zipped file. Go 37 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 ahead and save this down to your computer, and say OK, and there we go. 38 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Now this is saved down for me. 39 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Now what I am going to do is install this in my back-end of Joomla, 40 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 ao I am going to go to the back-end of Joomla 41 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 here, and I am going to go to Extensions > Extension Manager, and the 42 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Extension Manager is where we can upload and install any kind of extension inside of Joomla. 43 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:33,000 So we'll upload components, modules, and plug-ins here, as well as templates will 44 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 be installed in this way. 45 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:39,000 So I am going to go ahead and hit my Browse button here. I am going to go to my 46 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Downloads folder, and I am going to find Akeeba Backup, and I am going to say 47 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Upload & Install, and I am going to get a message here about any issues or 48 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 problems that I had installing Akeeba Backup, but the message up here in the 49 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 corner says installing the component was successful. 50 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 So this is a component. Where does that mean we are going to go on the menu 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 structure to find it? Well, it will be under Components, and there it is: Akeeba Backup. 52 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,000 If I go ahead and click this, the first thing it's going to want to do is take a 53 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 look at the Web site, and adjust some of the settings, and it does this for me 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,000 automatically, which is really terrific. 55 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 I am going to go ahead and say Apply these preferences, and this is going to run 56 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:21,000 a quick little configuration wizard that will test my server, and optimize my 57 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Akeeba Backup settings. 58 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 So I am going to let this go ahead and run. 59 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Okay, so the configuration wizard has run, and we are all set with Akeeba Backup. 60 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 So I am going to go ahead and show you the configuration screen here, just so 61 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 you can see what this looks like, actually, starting over here with the control panel. 62 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,000 So this will tell you that this is Akeeba Backup. This is what you will go to 63 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 when you go to Components > Akeeba Backup; you will see a screen like this after 64 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 the configuration has run. That will only run the first time, right after you 65 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 install it. After that, you will see this screen when you go to Akeeba Backup. 66 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 You might see an error here on your page, depending on what version of PHP you 67 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 are running with this. 68 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Right now, Akeeba Backup wants to have PHP 5.4 or higher installed, and Joomla! 3.0 69 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,000 will run with PHP 5.3.1 or higher. 70 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,000 So if you see some kind of error here, it probably indicates that you're 71 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,000 running an older version of PHP. Don't panic; Akeeba Backup will still wor -- 72 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 at least at this point in time -- it will still work with the older version of 73 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 PHP. He's just warning you that you're going to need to upgrade your version 74 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 of PHP on your Web server. 75 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 So what I want to do is I want to just back up, and it's the simplest thing in the 76 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 world. All I have to do is click this Backup Now button. 77 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,000 I am going to go to a screen where I can give this a description, so I can just 78 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 leave the short description as written here, or I could put in a note, so I'll 79 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,000 just put in a note: Backup after ACL. So that was the last thing that I did 80 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 here, I put ACL into the site, and now I am going to make a backup. 81 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Then I go ahead and just hit the Backup Now button, and this is going to go 82 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 ahead and run through this process backing up the Web site. 83 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 So we'll let that go ahead and run, and there we go. 84 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 So we have made a backup of the Web site. 85 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 This backup contains all of Joomla's 86 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:16,000 files, and there are over 4000 of them, and it also contains a copy of the Joomla 87 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 database. It's all put together in a single file. 88 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 So, let me show you what that looks like. So here under Administer Backup Files, 89 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:27,000 you will see here that there is one backup, because that's all I have made. 90 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 It's right here; Backup after ACL. It tells me how long it took to make the backup, 91 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 and it tells me the Type of backup, and the Size of the backup, and it also tells 92 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 me where it's located. 93 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Note that the file name is something here .jpa; JPA stands for Joomla! Pack, 94 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 which was the old name for Akeeba Backup, way, way back when, and the JPA 95 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 format is a unique format to Akeeba Backup, and as I said, it contains all of 96 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,000 the files in Joomla, 97 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 as well as a copy of the database. 98 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 So this is something that you can now download to the computer that's in front 99 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 of you, which sounds a little strange, because you are running this on the 100 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 computer that's in front of you, but certainly from your Web server, you could 101 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,000 download a copy of this backup, and you now have your Web site backed up. 102 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:15,000 As always, you should save your backups in a separate location from where your 103 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 actual Web site is located. 104 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,000 So just running Akeeba Backup isn't necessarily enough. Now you have a backup, 105 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 but in order to be safe, what you want to do is put this somewhere else. So if 106 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 you are working on the computer in front of you, save your backup off to a thumb 107 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 drive, or some kind of external hard drive. 108 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,000 If your Web site is on a server, just downloading it to your local computer is sufficient. 109 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,000 What you're trying to do is save that backup, just in case something happens to 110 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 the machine that you're working on with the Web site. 111 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 If you're wondering how you can now take this backup, and unpack it, and 112 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 restore your Web site, 113 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 that is through another product that Nicholas offers here, also free; it's called 114 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Akeeba Kickstart, you can read about it here under Akeeba Kickstart. 115 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Once again, there is extensive documentation for how Akeeba Kickstart works, and 116 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 it will explain how you can restore your site from backup in great detail. 117 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,000 So if you need to use your backups, I hope you never need your backups, but 118 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,000 if you ever do, take a look at Akeeba Kickstart here, and it will walk you 119 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 through that process.