How to backup your Joomla website

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What is Joomla and why the heck should you back it up?  Empower yourself by controlling your website content.  Easy updates.

Joomla is a Content Management System

Very popular website platform

Why you should have backups

Website server goes down

We will focus on the backup options for Joomla 1.5

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Joomla Extension Directory (JED) is moving towards GPL (free software license)

• Editor’s Picks is a great place to start when looking to extend your Joomla site
• Popular Extensions, Most Rated – good way to find good stuff!

Cost can be a barrier to developing software

Zend is a tool that can be used to “encrypt” code to protect it; like a copyright

JoomalPackis a fast and easy way to backup your Joomla files AND database

• Make sure when you generate backups, you store them “one level up” from the web directory
• Use JoomlaPack to copy a Joomla site from your local machine to your hosting account

The difference between Joomla files and the Joomla database

Joomla files contain the template, logo, icons and css

Joomla database contains your articles, posts, user accounts and passwords

Make sure you backup your Joomla site from your webhost.  You never know when it will have problems.  Downloaded them to your computer is okay at first.  Ideally, you will want to schedule the backups and then send them to Amazon’s S3 online file storag solution

JoomlaCloner ≠ Good is not, this product is

Cpanel and Plesk are tools to manage your website hosting account

Copying files for backup through FTP is slow and not efficent

Example of renaming your backup

1. joomla34323site.tar.gz
2. 20090318_joomla34323site.tar.gz

Managing your backup workflow for your Joomla website – schedule, email notification

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Question ustreamer-69677 : Velma: Talk a little about open source, what is it exactly? 

Wikipedia defintion of Open Source

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product’s source (goods and knowledge). Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet, which provided access to diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.

The open source model of operation and decision making allows concurrent input of different agendas, approaches and priorities, and differs from the more closed, centralized models of development.^[1] The principles and practices are commonly applied to the peer production development of source code for software that is made available for public collaboration. The result of this peer-based collaboration is usually released as open-source software, however open source methods are increasingly being applied in other fields of endeavor, such as Biotechnology.

Answer at AskAdria Open Source is like a child that has no parents but a whole community is rasing them

Question ustreamer-69677 : Why do you use it?

Answer at AskAdria It’s for everyone.  Everyone is welcome to be part of Open Source

API’s help connect applications to each other (Facebook is a great example of using API’s)

Open source is about sharing hugs!