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Formerly known as JoomlaPack, Akeeba Backup is an award-winning and high rated open-source backup component for Joomla.  Akeeba Backup is used to backup, migrate and restore a Joomla powered website in  an event of a failure. It creates a full backup of a website in a single archive. It can also create site packages that can be easily deployed to client sites.

Akeeba Backup is available  in two main editions - Akeeba Backup Core and Akeeba Backup Professional. Akeeba Backup Core is distributed free of charge that contains all the essential features to backup and restore a website.

Akeeba Backup Professional is distributed on a economical subscription basis that includes advanced features such as automating backups with CRON scripts, restoring backup archives from within the component itself and uploading backup to cloud storage services,. These editions are licensed under the GNU3(General Public License) and therefore, they can be installed on many sites.

The mission of Akeeba Backup is to backup the entire site, including all files as well as database contents inside a standalone archive. It makes it easy to restore the entire site from the contents of this archive, without installing Joomla prior to the restoration. It can be done in a single click, avoiding the work and time required to set up and test external utilities. For this, there is no need to change server configuration.

Akeeba Backup offers handy desktop applications to backup the sites from the desktop with just a single click and extract the backup archives locally. These applications are provided free of charge. It creates a backup archive that contains all files, a database snapshot as well as a restoration script. The backup and restore process of Akeeba Backup extension is AJAX powered, which is designed to avoid server timeouts.