Version backups for joomla?

How to restore an oops?

[cmendla]

I have a joomla 1.7 site. I was fiddling with one of the pages and lost part of the content in an article.

I can fix this by simply enough. However, it got me to thinking about the depth of my backups.

I am running Akeeba backup now, the latest version. I have a backup prior to the change. However, I don't want to restore the entire site. Right now, I am in the process of extracting the downloaded version of the site. I undertand that there is a way to get the content for one article that way.

My questions.

1. Are there any tools that can take periodic snapshots of the site? I did see some version extensions and may try them. I was also thinking about the possibility of a site downloader since this site is less than 150 pages.

2. Has anyone done what I am attempting with Joomla/akeeba? From the documentation I saw, it said it would take 'ten minutes'. I did set up php and msql for my local windows machine. The idea is that you download the backup file, extract it, then get it running on your local machine, find the article, copy and paste to your live site. .. THAT WILL TEACH ME NOT TO SCREW UP.


As I think about it, I'm leaning toward running akeeba to recover from a total crash or irrecoverable hack but to also run a site downloader to make periodic snapshots of the content as well as running some type of version tool. (ie belt, suspenders and safey pins. )

/rambling guy


thanks

chris

[travelin cat]

Chris, once a week I download a copy of the database via the cpanel. I keep these for a year. I have never trusted Akeeba as some of the backups I received were corrupted. I also download a complete copy of the home directory of the site. On one of my larger sites, both of these actions took less then 10 minutes to complete.

You can access pretty much any article from the db if you know what you are doing.

[ergophobe]

I've mentioned this lots of times before, but here's my poorman's backup for a small site database. If you get over a few thousand pages, this might not work, but it's crazy simple.

1. Build site.
2. Get GMail account [e-mail].
3. write script that runs a MySQL dump, gzips it, sends it to said GMail account with the date and time as the subject header.
4. Set up a cron job to run as often as you need it, depending on how active the site is.

Voila, 7.647 GB of free backup space, all arranged by date. A complete archive. If you have a few thousand pages and the attachment is, let's choose a random number like 7.647MB, you have 1000 backups you can keep. At 2x per day, that's 500 days. Assuming you're also downloading the occasional snapshot of the site somewhere else, once a year you just go in there and delete all the backups.