Best Joomla Site Backup Extensions 2020 - 0 views
started by Global Employees on 30 Jan 20
started by Global Employees on 30 Jan 20
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started by Global Employees on 30 Jan 20
Backups are fundamentally important in this digital age. Hackers and cyber criminals aside, your own mistakes could cost you a lot if you do not back up your valuable data! Hardware corruptions or accidental deletions can occur anytime. You might lose all your data without any warning. If you own a website, you not only have your data on the server but also data that other people upload. You may never get to recover the loss of such data. Hence, having a complete backup of your website database is a must!
Why should you keep a regular backup of your Joomla website?
Websites are prone to hacks and crash very often. The Joomla CMS includes a backend database – MySQL or PostgreSQL. Erroneous configurations can also wipe the database clean. If you have your blog or any personal website, you can retrieve all the data. Still, while doing so, you will have experienced the painful configuring Joomla, installing all the extensions and plugins. Another way to backup your Joomla website is to dump all the files on the server via an FTP client to a separate location. You can even export your database and download the exported file to your local PC. Talk to a Joomla developer for taking backup of your blog/website.
Following is a list of the best extensions that makes taking backups effortless:
Advantage: You get all the core components for free; also, you will not have to miss out on any functionality even though it is available for free.
Disadvantage: The support is not available for free.
EJB – Easy Joomla Backup: EJB free extension that facilitates an outstanding no-frills backup. You will get a full data dump of your website with this extension. It consists of the databases, the files, and everything else stored in one zip archive. You can extract the data and restore them to the server later if you want. You get the option to backup either the database or the data or even both.
Advantage: It is a free and easy-to-use backup tool without any extra frills, perfectly suitable for regular data dumps.
Disadvantage: It has no automated restoration process.
LazyDbBackup: The necessary use of LazyDbBackup is creating the database backup and sending it to you via email. You get an option where you can keep the backups in the server itself, without having it mailed to yourself. In such a scenario, you can get the backups via an FTP client.
Advantage: It gives you a free and easy method for getting database backups mailed to you.
Disadvantage: It works only with MySQL databases.
DataSafe Pro: DataSafe Pro is a highly innovative database backup solution with which you can execute backup and restore operations efficiently via the intuitive DataSafe Pro interface. You can even automate the backup process so that when you want to restore the database, you can choose one of the backups and restore it when you want. Databases are automatically repaired and optimized during this operation.
Advantage: DataSafe Pro comes with a simple interface for keeping backups; restore options are very comfortable for users and do not demand any extra effort; they also use the superior GZIP compression.
Disadvantage: DataSafe only keeps backup of the database, and of no other files.
XCloner: XCloner is a comprehensive website backup and restores a solution that you can make work as a native Joomla Component. It can back up any PHP/MySQL website, and you can also use it for creating custom backups or for making automated backups. With XCloner, you can even keep your backups on Amazon S3 cloud. For massive databases, it gives you incremental backups where you can back up the changes made. You can also use it to transfer the website from one server to another.
Advantage: It has several features that appeal to power users.
Disadvantage: You do not get support for free.