Backing Up

[Leo Ghost]

Ah, such a fun topic isn't it? A key security measure in keeping your sites safe, yet so few of s waste the time to back up correctly, in more than one place. How do you back up your sites? Do you download the files to your desktop, put them on a flash drive?

Personally I only back up 1 of my hosting accounts daily, and it's on a cron job to store the backup locally on their server, which I download to localhost nightly, and also to FTP the backup to a shared hosting account I have in the USA. I must say, it really works quite well :great:

 

[Jabberwocky]

For my client website I backup through a plugin. I don't care for backing up for my others but I should. As long as I don't mess up for the client then I'll be okay.

 

[Antarctic]

I don't normally backup them, hence why i lost a few of my sites 🙁 Ah well. When i start my new network i will be backing up daily..hopefully.

 

[Impulse]

I backup my site 3 times a day usually, only takes a few minutes at most.

 

[Acorn]

I'm on proboards but I do "backups" of content. I run a blank search of the last 1000 roleplaying posts and save it as a big file. I do this once or twice a day. if the forum is lost for whatever reason, our story will not be.

 

[Cosmic]

I backup my site locally and on a flash drive every few days. I do the database periodically and my files every time I make an update (which isn't necessarily regularly, as day to day tasks are database driven). I also have my forum software backed up on said flash drive and I develop locally.

 

[el canadiano]

I backup my forums not only for the purpose of "in case of a hack," but also in case I want to move hosts or if I might be doing something risky. I backup my databases through phpMyAdmin, and when I do, I ensure that Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION and Add CREATE PROCEDURE / FUNCTION are checked. This way, I can re-upload something if the database goes awry.

To backup my files, I go to my File Manager on cPanel, and then click on my folders with the forums and compress them on a tar.gz (I have it on public_html/domain.com) and then simply download it. I can easily upload the tar.gz when need be.

 

[Mr.Hazey]

My host do a database backup dailly and a full backup weekly i do one dailly and extra ones if needed

 

[Cosmic]

I backup my forums not only for the purpose of "in case of a hack," but also in case I want to move hosts or if I might be doing something risky. I backup my databases through phpMyAdmin, and when I do, I ensure that Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION and Add CREATE PROCEDURE / FUNCTION are checked. This way, I can re-upload something if the database goes awry.

To backup my files, I go to my File Manager on cPanel, and then click on my folders with the forums and compress them on a tar.gz (I have it on public_html/domain.com) and then simply download it. I can easily upload the tar.gz when need be.

Good idea. I heard that DarkRaven had some problems with syntax errors in the MyBB backup system.

 

[el canadiano]

The same thing happened with IPB 2.3, so from then on, I just used phpMyAdmin.