The Dashboard is your MokoSuiteBackup home base: clickable status cards for your last backup, next scheduled run, total count and storage used, plus one-click Backup Now, live system-health checks, and timely reminders like the post-update tuning banner.
Dashboard Overview
The Dashboard is the default landing page when you open MokoSuiteBackup in the Joomla administrator. It gives you a real-time overview of your backup status, system health, and quick access to common actions.
Status Cards
Four clickable cards appear at the top of the dashboard:
| Card | Shows | Links To |
|---|---|---|
| Last Backup | Date, profile name, and file size of your most recent completed backup | Backup detail view |
| Next Scheduled | Date/time and task name of the next scheduled backup | Joomla Scheduled Tasks |
| Total Backups | Total count of all completed backup records | Backup Records list |
| Storage Used | Total disk space used by all backup archives, plus a failure count badge for the last 7 days | Backup Records list |
Tuning Reminder
After an install or update of MokoSuiteBackup, the dashboard shows a dismissible reminder that the execution tuning wizard still needs to run. While tuning is pending, interactive (UI) backups are blocked until you run the wizard (automated backups keep running). Dismissing the reminder hides it for the session but does not clear the pending state — run Options > Execution Tuning > Run tuning wizard to unblock manual backups.
Quick Actions
The Quick Actions panel provides:
- Backup Now — Select a profile from the dropdown and click to start an immediate backup. The full-screen backup screen shows a real-time progress bar, and on completion offers a View backup record button. While the execution tuning wizard is pending, this button is disabled and a link to the tuning wizard is shown in its place; running the wizard re-enables it. (Automated backups are unaffected.)
- Navigation links — Direct access to Backup Records, Backup Profiles, Content Snapshots, Scheduled Tasks, and Update Sites.
The profile dropdown’s options are legible when the Atum administrator template is in dark mode.
System Health
The System Health panel runs automated checks and displays pass/fail status for:
- PHP Version — Must be 8.3 or higher (required for Joomla 6.x)
- ZipArchive — Required PHP extension for ZIP archives
- AES-256 Encryption — Requires libzip 1.2.0+ for encrypted archives
- Backup Directory — Checks the configured directory exists and is writable
- Free Disk Space — Warns if less than 1 GB free
Default Directory Warning
If any published profile stores backups in the default directory inside the web root (administrator/components/com_mokosuitebackup/backups), a warning banner is displayed. For better security, configure a backup directory outside the web root. (The out-of-box default now sits one level above the web root, so archives are not web-accessible.)