I’ve been working on Beaver Creek Consulting’s latest product (Simply Schedules) and had a chance to use JoomlaPack. Story short — it rocks.
I’m using Joomla for this site as I’ve decided that a CMS is the way to go.
I spent many hours configuring the site. I did all of this work live on my shared hosting account. Late today, after many hours of trial and tribulations, the site started to look good enough that I was happy with it. My next thought was, I need a back up!
Joomla keeps stuff on the file system of the web server and in a MySql database. That’s a pain to back up.
So, I found JoomlaPack, which you can just install in as a Joomla 1.5 component and then create a complete backup of the file system and database.
After I made the backup, I used kickstart to restore to my local development server. No Problems!
I have to say that JoomlaPack is a great tool. You can backup your production site, restore production in case of serious issues, and use JoomlaPack to move your site between environments and/or servers.
Rock away JoomlaPack!
