One feature of Akeeba Backup Professional
is to allow you to automatically
store the backup
on a remote location.
Microsoft OneDrive
is a very popular option
as it provides you with 15 gigabytes
of cloud storage space free of charge
and it is very simple
with Akeeba Backup Professional
to configure your backups
to be saved to OneDrive.
To begin go to the Configuration
scroll down to the processing engine.
Here you can see many options
including upload to Microsoft OneDrive.
Once that's selected
choose Configure.
In order for our web site
to talk to Microsoft OneDrive
we need to authenticate it.
Click on the authentication button
and a popup will open.
and you may be asked to login.
Now, click on the complete
authentication button.
The directory that we want to store it in
is by default the root of our Microsoft Onedrive account
but we can store it anywhere we want
including a subdirectory.
As you can see a token
has been automatically entered.
Once you have configured Microsoft OneDrive
Save and Close your configuration
and you are now ready to perform your first backup
with the files being saved in Microsoft OneDrive.
Once the backup has completed
we can go to our Manage Backups
and here we can see
the backup just took place
it is a Remote Backup
and it is stored remotely.
From this link we are able to
bring the backup
back from Microsoft OneDrive
directly on to our web server.
or our desktop.
Now every time a backup
is performed by Akeeba Backup Professional
the backup file itself
is being stored remotely
in our Microsoft OneDrive account.