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Check out Clonebox. It keeps four complete, bootable copies of your server ready to go at a moment's notice.
When evaluating backup, keep in mind the Rules:
Backups must be fully automated - otherwise you'll eventually neglect to do it.
Backups must be rotated - having a backup from midnight does you no good when you were hacked at 11:30.
Backups must be offsite - when the fire at The Planet took out 20,000 servers, anyone who had "backups" from the same host simply had two melted servers.
Backups must be tested - recently a web host pointed me to their "backups", which had stopped running 18 months prior.
Backups must be quickly restorable - it can take 48 hours to retrieve just one file from magnetic tape.
Clonebox is of course not only compliant with the Rules of backup, but a shining example. How long to restore your server? Clonebox can boot the backup and have you up and running in 5 - 10 minutes.
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