Website Backup Suggestions?
 

Looking at more options for backing up websites. What would you suggest:

buying cheap hosting space and doing a regular ftp/telnet transfer?

using one of those online back up services?

downloading everything occasionally and backing up on hard disk and dvd?


what do you do for website backups?

My web hosting company backs up my stuff for .25 cents extra per month.

i usually back up all sites to my pc with a batch ftp file once a week...

thanks. will look into batch jobs. I'm paranoid so will probably do multiple backups - online, to pc, second hard drive. don't know if I'll go as far as storing some backups at a different location too though...

Look at this website. They have a nice tutorial for backing up everything: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10/8718.htm

all my web hosts say they do back ups, but i feel it's best to control these things yourself. also, with regular back ups it makes moving hosts a lot easier

the benefit of backing up to another web host is that if you do it right i believe you can keep all your permission settings which makes moving to a new web host a lot easier, rather than having to chmod a bunch of files whenever you move and potentially screwing up scripts

interesting. thanks.

downloading and recording on dvd...

i do back ups every few days on 2 computers, and one external hard drive

good information. Thank you for posting it here :)

Get soem cheap FTP space somewhere and rsync the data everyday,additionally download the backup to your HDD

We back up for free, even dedicated server to a remote server but anyways.

But definably option number 3.

I suggest that you do a back up to your home computer. I am sure there is a way to log in through ftp and download everything that has changed.

No matter this should be part of any back up program.

cool.

any suggestions for ftp space?


how do you use rsync?


thanks.

a while back, my host suggested the following to copy everything to another server, which is working well so far as one option:

scp -r username@server:/path/to/dir .

if you've got control of the server, and your content isn't gigs upon gigs, try using a USB flash drive. Not efficient for backing up a million images, but capacities keep on going up, and prices keep going down. I find I can backup my member databases etc for a week, and rotate.

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We rcync everyday and gan give you ftp only space for a $5 a gig

Bump for more ideas. I'm in need of such information as well and prefer to do it myself.

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First host that ever had a backup when we actually needed it.

found out more info on rsyn: http://www.samba.org/rsync/

looks good. will have to see if it's compatible with shared hosting or not, or if you need root access to use it

I've several gigs to back up (and rising) so for starters may take a lunar pages plan just for backups, and until I can work out how to use rsync I'll use the scp command to create regular backups.

downloading several gigs onto my pc would probably take at least a day or two. I'll have to work out a system for doing it once in full, and then only downloading changed files in the future.

another thought - may set up an old pc as a linux box and back up to that. that way, I keep all the file permissions too, and that might work well with rsync.

the more backups the better. just have to get systems in place...

You should have one locally at all times.

I know, but I've a nasty habit of getting my server side and local web pages/files out of sync

and now it's got to the stage where there's gigs of the stuff, it's a right pain. but you're right, i should get this sorted out pronto...

I back up my sites once a week. I also back it up by cd and ftp. I do not trust other services for privacy issues.