Creating Automated Daily Backups with Akeeba Backup Pro
What's in this movie?
Akeeba Backup is one of the most popular and most helpful extensions for Joomla that there is.
With Akeeba Backup Pro, the paid version, you can make it even more useful by setting it up to automatically make daily backups of your site and have those backup files sent to a server of your choice, such as an Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloudfiles account.
In this video, you'll see how to set up a Cloudfile account and how to configure Akeeba Backup Pro to automatically send it's daily backup files to the Cloudfile account.
In my opinion, this is the best approach for gaining peace of mind around having daily backups for your site.
Movie length: 12:18min
Resources:
Cron Job Command:
/usr/local/bin/php /home/your_username/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup.php
