Joomla 2.5 Backup – Installing Akeeba Backup Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle 1 Minutes, 4 Seconds to Read Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Creating a backup of your Joomla 2.5 website, or any website actually, is a very important process. It’s often required to restore your website to a previous version (using a backup). A very popular Joomla 2.5 backup tool is Akeeba Backup. In this tutorial series, we’ll show you how to use Akeeba Backup. The very first thing you’ll need to do is download and install Akeeba Backup. h2>How to install Akeeba Backup for Joomla 2.5 Visit this url and download akeeba backup. When visiting the above page, click the “Akeeba Backup” heading. Then click the heading for the latest stable release. We clicked “3.4.3(Stable)“. Finally, click “Download now” under Akeeba Backup Core. Log into your Joomla Admin In the top menu, hover over Extensions and click Extension Manager Under Upload Package File, click Browse and locate the file you downloaded above. Then click Upload & Install After clicking Upload & Install, you should see a message that states Installing component was successful. At this point, you have successfully installed Akeeba Backup for Joomla 2.5! Your next step will be to run the post-installation configuration. Share this Article Related Articles The Complete Guide to cPanel Backups How to Install Nextcloud on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Protect an Archived Backup Backup Manager WHM Guide for VPS/Dedicated Servers How to Keep Regular Backups for Reseller Accounts Storing Your Backups with Amazon S3 via WHM How to use Google’s cache to restore a web page Scheduling cPanel Backups in WHM How to Create a Backup Using FTP How to Restore Backups from Amazon’s S3 Cloud Storage
I have installed Akeeba and it gave me a message t say installed successfully. When I go to Extension it is not there
Hello Susan, You should be able to continue with the next steps for configuration. If you cannot do so, I would try to reinstall it to see if that helps. Kindest Regards, Scott M
Hello Shiva, Thank you for contacting us. We are happy to help, but will need some additional information. What version of Joomla are you using? What 3rd party Themes/Extensions are you using? Thank you, John-Paul
