If you’re restoring over top of another installation, then the compressed file should be in root directory of the Joomla installation. jpa archive and comakeeba-3.6.8-core.zip (52 kb) file into the root of your new or existing site. Compatible with JPA, JPS & ZIP archives, PHP 5.3.4 and later.
Did you download Kickstart from Akeeba?.Directory location (only if the restore is occurring in a differen directory).
If you are filing a review please make sure that it concerns the Akeeba Backup Core edition and the features we make available free of charge, in line with the Joomla Extension Directory's rules.
Support for the software and an edition with advanced features (not listed above) are, however, not free of charge. Note: The Akeeba Backup Core component, its documentation and its video tutorials are free of charge. Useful for transferring your site between subdomains/hosts or even to/from your local testing server (e.g. However, at the time of this writing PHP 8 is still in alpha. At the time of this writing we have only done some preliminary PHP 8 compatibility testing and found no issue. It won't run on hosts running PHP versions 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0 or any 4.x versions.
Version 8: Joomla 3.10, PHP 7.2 or later. Version 9: Joomla! 4 and later, PHP 7.2 and later. Compatible with JPA, JPS and ZIP archives, PHP 5.3.4 and later versions.