Password Protect Joomla Backups for Increased Security

Written by Ogy Nikolic
Inexperienced Joomla designers or business users who manage their own Joomla websites don't know why or how to encrypt Joomla site backups. 

Why: Considering that you should have backups of your website on multiple locations so that there is no single point of failure that could easily destroy the data, managing the security of backup files becomes difficult. In this case, password protecting your backup files gives you another level of protection against thieves who might have gained access to one of the backup locations. 

How: An easy and reliable  way to password protect your backups would be at the time they are generated on your server. Your Joomla developer should just use an option to add a password while completing a zip compression of your Joomla site. 

Is your Joomla backup file bigger than 2GB? Considering that zip files are limited to 2GB in size, your Joomla programmer can resolve this issue by first splitting your uncompressed backup to multiple zip files than zipping each one individually.  

How can I retrieve a lost Joomla backup password? Well, if you don't have your password written anywhere in a safe location and you cannot remember the password, your backups are basically useless. 

Ogy Nikolic
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