Die Komponente ist sowohl als kostenlose Akeeba Backup Core (Open Source) und als kostenpflichtige Akeeba Backup Professional Version verfügbar. Bereits die kostenlose Version bietet alle Voraussetzungen und Funktionen, um komplette Sicherungen, Wiederherstellung und Migration von Joomla! Webseiten vorzunehmen.
Eine Wiederherstellung kann dabei direkt aus der Komponente in Joomla! vorgenommen werden (entweder von einem bereits auf dem Server vorhandenen oder von einem per FTP hochgeladenen Backup), falls die Joomla! Administration noch lauffähig ist oder aber als Komplettinstallation mittels dem Restsaurierungs-Script kickstart.php.
Unterschiede Core vs. Professional
| Funktion | Core | Professional |
|---|---|---|
| Backup your entire site and its database with a single click | X | X |
| Restoration script included in the backup archive We are the only solution provider to offer self-contained backup archives | X | X |
| User interface translations into many languages (optional download) | X | X |
| Automatically fine-tune the configuration to suit your preferences and server setup | X | X |
| Configuration encrypted with strong 128-bit AES cryptography | - | X |
| ACL: fine-grained permissions, controlling which Akeeba Backup features each user can access | X | X |
| Generate standard ZIP or custom JPA format backup archive files, including split ZIP/JPA | X | X |
| Direct server-to-server transfer of your site over FTP/FTPS (DirectFTP) | - | X |
| Direct server-to-server transfer of your site over SFTP (DirectSFTP) | - | X |
| AES-128 encrypted archives (JPS format) | - | X |
| Optimized database dump (Extended INSERTs) | X | X |
| Front-end backup feature allowing scheduled (CRON) backups and backup using PDA / Cell Phone Front-end CRON functionality requires third party software (e.g. curl) and web access | X | X |
| Efficient native command-line PHP scripts for use in CRON scheduling | - | X |
| Multiple backup profiles | X | X |
| Backup only your site's database or only your files | - | X |
| Incremental files only backup | - | X |
| Administer your backup files (download, delete) | X | X |
| Import arbitrary archive files | - | X |
| Restore your backup files from within the component (full site backup archives only) | - | X |
| Exclude arbitrary directories, files or directory contents (individual item selection) | X | X |
| Exclude database tables or table contents only (individual item selection) | X | X |
| Regular expressions (PCRE) file, directory and database filters | - | X |
| Option to exclude non-Joomla! database tables | - manual, slow | X automated, fast |
| Include extra MySQL databases in the backup set | - | X |
| Include off-site directories in the backup set | - | X |
| Send backup archives to yourself by email | - | X |
| Cloud Backup Send backup archives to any FTP, FTPS and SFTP server | - | X |
| Cloud Backup Store backup archives on Amazon S3 and restore from archives stored there | - | X |
| Cloud Backup Store backup archives on commercial cloud storage providers includes DropBox, Box.com, Google Storage, iDriveSync, SugarSync, RackSpace CloudFiles, Microsoft Windows Azure BLOB Storage and any WebDAV server (allowing you to use another 40+ cloud storage services) | - | X |
| Fine-grained quota management, even for remote files | - | X |
