where do you backup?

[CD Burnt]

just wondering, for both website owners and home users.....


where do you backup your files?


for website owners, have you a good estimate of how long it would take to restore a full backup from wherever you have them?

[SoftWareRevue]

It's pretty easy to keep static sites locally. So, that's what I do.

When it comes to dynamic content though, that's a different animal.

I have everything backed up nightly to another drive on the server. I've never had a problem with this process, even though I've had hard drives fry or otherwise become unusable. Even so, I have some sites that I use a remote backup service and nightly rsync the contents to a different server.

Time for restoration is dependant upon the size and structure of the site.

[CD Burnt]

ok, so how long to restore a full backup of FU, from second harddrive, and from remote backup service?

[The Prohacker]

Without looking at the size of the database, which I'm sure is around 15-30mb. About 10 minutes max :)

We backup to a seperate backup server which stores several copies of backups. Storing backups on the same server and on a seperate drive is a decent practice but still not fool proof. Off site backup is the best method and is the most secure normally.

[John D]

I setup all my backups months ago that goes to a remote server, haven't had to use them in a long time though.

Last time I didn't check if the backups were actually goign to the remote server...bad move, I lost a few full sites and I just finalised a sale for one that was worth a few thousand... :(

Is there anything in cPanel that I can use to backup the full site including database within the one file?
I would feel a lot better being able to do that even once a week.

[Mikey]

backup on server nightly, download most recent backup home every 2 weeks.

[adb22791]

I am in the process of setting up rsync to backup to my home nightly. When that starts to get bandwidth intensive, I will figure some other way, probably just a backup to the server, or buy some remote back somewhere else. I have a pretty fast internet connection (15MB down, 2MB up), so RSYNCing is not a problem. I wrote a shell script that backs up my databases, and the backup will be RSYNCed, as well as the raw data. When I finally get around to setting this up I will let you all know how it goes.