The LazyDbBackup Plugin is a must have for all Joomla website administrators. It will save you time and the trouble of backing up the databases manually. The plugin will email a copy of the database automatically and emails you a copy of the database as often as you want. It is the easiest automatic database backup solution for Joomla websites.
What is does:
* Automatic MySQL database backups sent by email to single or multiple recipients;
* Scheduled intervals: How many days or how many times a day ;
* No need for server side configuration through cron (unix servers) or scheduled tasks (windows servers) ;
* gzip file with optional password protection ;
* MySQL compliant database dump file, for easy recovery through PhpMyAdmin import function ;
* Easy installation, 30 seconds or less to configure the plugin.
The next step is to import the database to your Joomla site on the home computer if you have one. Please see our tutorial on setting up a copy of your Joomla production site.
LazyDbBackup is based on LazyBackup by Stefan Granholm. (GNU/GPL 2 or over license). This plugin was "internationalized" (for Joomla! 1.5 and 1.6) and modified to run with Joomla! 1.6 by Robert Gastaud.The LazyDbBackup Plugin is available in the JED.
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In case you were wondering where Lazybackup is, you are not alone. A good number of people are searching the web and the developer seems to have disappeared. The JED, as of January 2010, has no longer a link to the plug-in because the developers' website is down.
In the hope we will hear soon more about Lazybackup, we have posted the plug-in we use for our production sites till it is available in the JED. You can download the plug-in below and read more about this brilliant plugin here.
Update 1: The link has been restored in the JED - please download the plug-in through the JED (but we will keep a backup on this site for a while in case the link disappears again).
Update 2: LazyBackup 2 has disappeared again: "This extension has been unpublished for the following reason: * UR1-Broken Links."
Update 3: LazyDbBackup has been introduced on January 29, 2011 and is based on LazyBackup by Stefan Granholm. (GNU/GPL 2 or over license). This plugin was "internationalized" (for Joomla! 1.5 and 1.6) and modified to run with Joomla! 1.6 by Robert Gastaud.
Message from Stefan Granholm, on 09/15/2010:
Im very happy to hear its been updated for 1.6 :o)
And am very happy to see your work too, and I think it is a very good thing to Joomla, if not the best extension ;o)
This is what sharing is about, helping each other and make it free for all. Very good day to you.
Regards,
Stefan granholm
The LazyDbBackup Plugin is available in the JED. We have added the two latest versions to the repository below, just in case the plug-in is delisted again.
Current folder: Lazybackup info 
File name 
Size Last changed 
plg_lazybackup_2.1.1.zip 173 KB 15/01/2010 22:32:49 plg_lazydbbackup_1.5.4b.zip 177 KB 05/02/2011 02:30:46 plugin_lazybackup_1.3.zip 86.9 KB 15/01/2010 22:29:26 