Do you backup your site?

[Steve Jobs]

Do you backup your forum? if so, how often? How do you do it? Do you store it on your web server or local computer?

Personally, I run an automated task that does a full site backup and backs it up to a folder in Google Drive. Twice a week.

 

[Openstudio]

Hello,

I do have an automated task that does a full backup of my website script + database 😀
thanks to my web-hosting service!

 

[Steve Jobs]

Hello,

I do have an automated task that does a full backup of my website script + database 😀
thanks to my web-hosting service!

That is great! Does that keep it on the server or on your local machine?

 

[Openstudio]

As you prefer 🙂 you can choose

 

[Cierra]

I do. My host takes backups on their side every day and I take one myself weekly. Luckily my forum software makes it pretty easy to make and download a backup. Can never have too many in case of emergencies. I keep the backups in multiple locations as well for added protection.

 

[Allenafaith]

Moved to a section more suitable. 🙂

I had an automatic backup that ran every night at midnight just in case something were to happen.

 

[katzer]

Not backing up your site is like sticking your hand in a shark tank. Ouch.

 

[nathanielrsuchy]

I think I'm winning with a incremental backup of all files and database changes, only the changes get uploaded, but my site does the backup every 15 minutes.

 

[JedoChristo]

I backup my site and forums twice a week.

I keep a copy on my local machine and on the server.

 

[Deleted member 29780]

Not backing up your site is like sticking your hand in a shark tank. Ouch.

We have experience with sharks! At one point we never really did any backups, but now we update every day 😉

 

[Cierra]

I think I'm winning with a incremental backup of all files and database changes, only the changes get uploaded, but my site does the backup every 15 minutes.

15 minutes, you must have a lot of backups then. For my site once to twice daily is enough.

 

[nathanielrsuchy]

I think I'm winning with a incremental backup of all files and database changes, only the changes get uploaded, but my site does the backup every 15 minutes.

15 minutes, you must have a lot of backups then. For my site once to twice daily is enough.

True but they're stored on AWS S3 and not the EC2 instance. Storage isn't an issue. Besides even the EC2 Instance has 100GB of SSD Space.

 

[JedoChristo]

I think I'm winning with a incremental backup of all files and database changes, only the changes get uploaded, but my site does the backup every 15 minutes.

Every 15 minutes?!

I really see no point in that unless you are generating an intense number of posts/contents on your site.

 

[robingagewebmaster]

I do. My host takes backups on their side every day and I take one myself weekly. Luckily my forum software makes it pretty easy to make and download a backup.

 

[nathanielrsuchy]

I think I'm winning with a incremental backup of all files and database changes, only the changes get uploaded, but my site does the backup every 15 minutes.

Every 15 minutes?!

I really see no point in that unless you are generating an intense number of posts/contents on your site.

Also a user has to of triggered the tasks system within the 15 minutes for the new backup to generate. If that requirement has been meet then CRON will pickup the new file and upload it off site.

 

[robingagewebmaster]

I do. My host takes backups on their side every day and I take one myself weekly. Luckily my forum software makes it pretty easy to make and download a backup.

 

[kaitlam14]

I backup my site once a week. I used a plugin in my wordpress blog to do it

 

[Pinky]

My host regularly backs up my site. I'm going to start doing my own backups too, just in case.