Joomla Backup
What comes to mind when you hear the word DATA? The plural of Latin word datum? Matter of fact, yes, but more than that, it is a collection or a group of qualitative and/or quantitative attributes of variable or set of variables. It is something we consider important or valuable from which information or knowledge is derived.
Keeping data is critical back then since things were done manually and storage devices are not readily available. Paper documents, images or pictures once burned are lost forever.
But with the fast progression of technology today, a wide array of solutions is continually developed to secure and even recover lost data. This has become possible through backup.
Importance of Backup
Technology has become part of our daily life. Cellular phones that give us easy, fast and convenient means of communication and most importantly computers which undeniably can do a lot and arguably running our lives in many aspect.
In Information technology, a backup or the process of backing up refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The term back up in two words is taken as a verb whereas backup which is one word only is a noun. (Word usage here is expound to avoid ambiguity.)
Just imagine our life in a regular basis. When we leave our house, aside from the one bearing the original, we purposely make sure that someone holds another key called duplicate, or hide it somewhere else. Important paper documents in office or personal are kept with several copies in different files. In case one of these is misplaced or worse, lost by accident, would you cry and freak out? Pathetic scenario like this is avoided. You never want this to happen. This is what we call backing up. Backup is one of the most important things that any computer user can do. Computers have become entrenched into our daily lives, and there are things on our computers that we need or want that can never be replaced if lost.
This is why backup is so important to us. Family photographs, stories, business papers, tax documents, whatever you keep on your computer that cannot be replaced: this is what you want to backup. Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster (called disaster recovery). The second is to restore small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted.
Types of Backup
There are many different types of data storage devices that are useful for making backups such as external hard drive or CDs and many different ways in which these devices can be arranged to provide geographic redundancy, data security, and portability.
Backing up can be manually done, such as saving your typed documents in one of the computer drives (e.g. Local Disk) and make a copy on flash drive. However it becomes tedious, time-consuming and oftentimes you will forget to do it. Backup Software applications will do a reasonable job for this. It depends on the requirement that suits you upon choosing. Whether you want to run backups without interfering with other applications or enable it with an automatic scheduling. Whether you intend to back up a whole database or only selected critical files, perhaps one or two stand alone desktop PCs or a network of them, or the whole operating system too; huge options are on the market to make this process to be as fast and as painless as possible.
Creating Online Backup : Joomla-Powered Sites
Since data loss is very common and a big portion of internet users have suffered from serious data loss, effective online backup solution has become much more popular in recent years along with software application that employs the solution for you automatically.
We remove these burdens on Joomla-powered sites through Akeeba Backup. It creates a full backup of your site in a single archive. One essential function of this component is that it generates a site backup which contains not only the database but all the files and can be restored on any Joomla-capable server. Recovering the entire site from a backup file is a quick and easy process. It definitely eliminates the hassle of filing and keeping track of important and private information on your computer. One of the most cost-effective and reliable extension to protect your vital data.
Another is the JoomlaCloner which enables the user to move his site to any location without manually reinstalling all the components, plug-ins, templates, database, etc. Instead of creating a new site from scratch, JoomlaCloner resolves this by using the server ftp function manually or automatically.
