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Clean_Franck · 12-16-2007, 06:20 AM

What is the best way to back up a website on a server do you think?
Host it on another server?
Save it all to another harddrive?
Whats the most effective and safe way do you think

k0nr4d · 12-16-2007, 06:35 AM

raid + offsite daily backups

Kron · 12-16-2007, 06:48 AM

off site for sure

RusF · 12-16-2007, 07:05 AM

You can just write a small shell script which uses cp to copy your wwwroot to another location (drive) and dump your MySQL tables w/ the mysqldump command.

Or, if you have a fast connection from one server to another you can write a small shell script which uses scp (secure copy) to copy your wwwroot to another server, dump your MySQL tables and scp them, then run the backed up sql code to insert the database on the new server

Eventually you can use cron to do it daily or so. Your host should be able to set it up, its just a couple of lines.

Clean_Franck · 12-16-2007, 07:41 AM

so you recommend storage on a harddrive?

Star 69 · 12-16-2007, 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

raid + offsite daily backups

And if we are talking about low budget projectcs and raid is too expansive???

Quote:

Originally Posted by pornopete

there is no need to backup sites. Everything is in google cache, so when you loose your site just get it from google cache!

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Never heard about google cache

MickeyG · 12-16-2007, 08:00 AM

rsynch

hjnet · 12-16-2007, 09:55 AM

Most Control Panels have a built in backup solution, so that would do the job pretty well. I've written a bash script for my servers to copy everything important to another server. That works too till the day when all my servers have a HD failure at the same time

D Ghost · 12-16-2007, 09:58 AM

definitely need offsite

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D Ghost null Industry Role: Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 9,820	definitely need offsite