Backing up Joomla

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Backing up Joomla

Post by FNAGROUP985 » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:11 pm

One of our company's websites uses Joomla 1.5.22. I've only used a more recent version of Joomla and there are literally no editing capabilities to make changes to our site. What can I do about this and how can I back up the files so I can upgrade to 3.5?
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Re: Backing up Joomla

Post by imanickam » Thu Mar 24, 2016 4:29 am

Backup of Joomla! is really easy.

First, you have to take a back-up of all the files (including the sub-directories and their files) of your site.
Second, You have to take a back-up of your MySQL database that is being used for your site. You can export the content of the site by using tools/utilities such as phpMyAdmin.

No site back-up is complete without testing whether the site gets restored properly. You could do this testing in your local environment.

Also, you could develop the site in Joomla! 3 on a local environment. Once you are happy with the outcome, the site could be transferred to a hosting environment.

Review of the following links would be of help to understand the process.
- https://docs.joomla.org/Backup
- https://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website
- https://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_websi ... emote_host
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