Backup
What is MokonyxBackup?
MokonyxBackup is a comprehensive backup and restore solution for Joomla 6 (Joomla 4/5 supported). It provides full-site backups (database + files), multiple backup profiles, scheduled tasks, remote storage (FTP, Google Drive, S3), AES-256 encryption, content snapshots, automatic backup-before-update protection, and a standalone restore script.
Key Features
- Full, database-only, files-only, and differential backup types
- Multiple backup profiles with independent settings
- Backup before update & uninstall — a full-screen backup fronts Joomla core updates and any extension update or uninstall, so you always have a fresh restore point without white-screening large sites.
- Content snapshots & transfer — capture articles, categories and modules and move them between sites as a portable
.msbsnapfile, or push them master→slave directly via the injection API. - Joomla Scheduled Tasks integration plus web-cron for automated backups
- Remote storage: FTP/FTPS, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (+ Wasabi, B2, MinIO), with retention that prunes remote copies too
- AES-256 archive encryption
- MokonyxRestore standalone restore script for bare-server restores
- SHA-256 integrity verification
- Email and ntfy notifications on success, warning and failure
- REST API compatible with the MokonyxBackup MCP server
- AJAX step-based engine for shared hosting
- Execution-tuning wizard that paces backups to the host
🚀 Backup Roadmap – See What’s Coming Next!
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- Category: Backup
- Applicable Software: MokonyxBackup
- Min Version Number: 01.07.00
- Max Version Number: Not Applicable
Mokonyx Backup is the backup & restore extension for your Joomla site. It runs scheduled and on-demand backups of your files and database, organises them into reusable backup profiles and snapshots, ships copies to off-site destinations (SFTP/FTP, S3 and more), and gives you a safe, guided restore — including an automatic safety backup taken before any update, install or uninstall.
Backup Roadmap (current stable 01.07.00)
- Scheduled and on-demand backups of your site files and database.
- Reusable backup profiles with snapshots you can run any time.
- Automatic safety backup before every extension update, install or uninstall.
- Clearer safety prompts — the confirmation now names the exact action (Update / Install / Uninstall).
- On-demand "run this profile now" from the backup dashboard and API.
- Remote / off-site storage destinations for your backup archives.
- Standalone restore page so you can recover even when the site is down.
- Polished full-screen progress and completion screens, now cleanly centred on any display.
- Fully responsive, mobile-friendly backup, progress and restore screens.
- A guided setup wizard to get backups configured in minutes.
- Safety backups that also trigger on updates applied remotely or via the API.
- Fixing the notification group picker so success/failure alerts reach the right people.
- Backup queue so multiple jobs run safely without colliding.
- Smoother, more reliable installs and updates on modern MySQL hosts.
- Download a snapshot and restore it into another installation (Kickstart-style transfer).
- Per-snapshot detail view with edit and restore controls.
- More remote destinations and hardened multi-remote / S3 multipart uploads.
- Execution-tuning wizard that auto-calculates the best step/chunk sizes for your host.
- Automatic Smart Search re-index after a restore.
- Remote site sync — deploy a full installation to another server over FTP/SFTP + MySQL.
- Advanced feature tiers unlocked by licence.
- Additional cloud storage providers (e.g. Google Drive and beyond).
- Smarter, host-aware scheduling and retention policies.
Items and timing are indicative and may change based on feedback and feasibility.
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Run Your First Backup
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- Category: Getting Started
- Applicable Software: MokonyxBackup
- Min Version Number: 01.00.01
- Max Version Number: Not Applicable
Ready to protect your site? This guide walks you through taking your very first full-site backup with MokonyxBackup — from opening the component to downloading the finished archive. It takes about five minutes, and there is nothing to configure first: a default profile is already set up for you.
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MokonyxBackup Installation & Setup
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- Category: Getting Started
- Applicable Software: MokonyxBackup
- Min Version Number: 01.00.01
- Max Version Number: Not Applicable
Get MokonyxBackup up and running in minutes: install the single package (it drops in the component, plugins, admin module and CLI in one step), run the required tuning wizard, and take your first full-site backup. This guide walks you through requirements, package contents, and the Super-User options worth enabling on day one.
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How to Restore Your Site (Disaster Recovery)
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- Category: Guides
- Applicable Software: MokonyxBackup
- Min Version Number: 01.00.01
- Max Version Number: Not Applicable
Something has gone wrong — a bad update, a hack, a host migration, or a change you wish you could take back. Take a breath. If MokonyxBackup made you a backup, your site is recoverable, and this guide walks you through it one step at a time. Pick the path that matches your situation and follow the numbered steps.
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MokonyxBackup Execution Tuning
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- Category: Guides
- Applicable Software: MokonyxBackup
- Min Version Number: 01.00.01
- Max Version Number: Not Applicable
Every host paces a backup differently, so MokonyxBackup ships a tuning wizard that probes your server — PHP limits, disk speed, site footprint — and sets the host-wide step values for you. It's required after a fresh install: until you run it, both interactive backups and pre-action (before update/install/uninstall) backups stay gated, while automated backups and updates themselves keep running.
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