What's an offsite FTP?
ALWAYS Save a Site Backup To Your Computer!
- Thread starter Peggy
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Wrong .. this could not have happened to anyone.
But I applaud you standing by those guys
I like sticking by startups 
An ftp account not located on the same server as your site that you use to place your backups on.
How do you set one of those up?
Thanks Blandt, I'll definitely consider Linode.com
I pay around $40/month now, so I'll have to consider my options. The site isn't HUGE, but I have to check out what the size is so that I know what my minimum needs are. Thanks for the offer of helping to set it up too!
I pay around $40/month now, so I'll have to consider my options. The site isn't HUGE, but I have to check out what the size is so that I know what my minimum needs are. Thanks for the offer of helping to set it up too!
David Thomas
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Fair enough.
The World Trade Center had security guards and alarm systems, probably some of the best. The Pentagon is a freaking prison, you can't get in or out without passing rigorous security clearance and military guys with guns. I'm sure you'll recall what happened. Calling someone "incompetent" or "jerkoffs" because they experienced a freak accident with the hardware just goes to show you how the true "jerkoff" is. Millions of car accidents happen every year. Most of the time, people are injured, but they are still alive. Do we call the thousands who died in the accident "incompetent jerkoffs", because they're part of the few who couldn't control what happened?
To assume that nothing could go wrong with technology just sets you up for further failure.
I was backing up my site last night (still backing it up) as my tech admin use to but he's unavailable to do it now. Doing it as a result of this thread even tho mine is backed up. Anyway, I was having issues a bit ago on the web, my husband asked if it was the server. I told him no, because it was more than JUST my sites. He kept at me...turns out, when I called my ISP, they are having issues. It WASN'T my host, even if he had it in his head it was.
Yes. You can run an automated scripted an email it to yourself. I used to use gmail for this.
Depends on your host / hosting package.
My hosts, 1and1 offer a 50gb ftp vault for £35 a month that is not internet accessable for security, but the server can make ftp backups to that space.
If you don't have vps or server level access / your hosts dont offer off server backups, your best bet would be a cron job that dumps your database into a backup file, then copies all your files and the database backup to another ftp with either another host.
Would you start a new thread explaining the process?You can do it with windows7 It's called Task Scheduler
Thanks Blandt, I'll definitely consider Linode.com
I pay around $40/month now, so I'll have to consider my options. The site isn't HUGE, but I have to check out what the size is so that I know what my minimum needs are. Thanks for the offer of helping to set it up too!
I have helped few members here set up their linode slices ...
What you should consider is the size of your traffic ... if you have less than 100 concurrent users at any given time then a 512 VPS should do just fine with the proper server setup (use of nginx and ditching Cpanel
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Oh yes, I used to do this, but now even a compressed backup of my server, I can only make 2 of them to a gmail account so I had to scrap that idea, but for a small site it is a very good place to store files as gmail is a very secure, very resiliant service.
This should work
Enable SMTP on your server / vps.
Install the mutt client.
Make a folder called backup on the root of your server.
Make a folder called backupsql on the root of your server.
Go to /usr/bin and make a file called backup.
Place inside that file
Code:
cd /backup
rm -rf /backup/*
cp /path/to/your/httpdocs /backupsql .
tar zcf backup.tgz *
echo | mutt -a backup.tgz -s "backup_name" your_email@gmail.comMake another file called backupsql
Place inside that file
Code:
cd /backupsql
mysqldump -h hostname -u username -p"password" databasename > backup.sqlOpen up the cron tab and enter
Code:
50 23 * * * /usr/bin/backupsql
0 0 * * * /usr/bin/backupThis should then make a dump of your SQL database at 23:50, then back a backup of the database dump and your http files at 00:00 and email it to your gmail addy. Obviously if you have HUGE sql databases, just set it to run 10 / 20 minutes earlier.
You can do it with windows7 It's called Task Scheduler
I thought rsync was linux only but apparently there are windows options as well. I downloaded cwRsync and toyed with it for a bit but I'm not exactly clear on what I need to do to accomplish pulling my home directory out, and maybe some others such as /etc and mysql tables.
Can you run dropbox via console only? How much memory does it use?
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