How about using a dedicated external hard drive for backups. I have one solely for that purpose. That's how I do: Turn it on. Backup. Turn it off.First goal? Get a backup of both sites and burn them to disc as well as save them to my local computer!
That reminds me. I should use my time machine (Mac) backup drive in addition to my local HD.You can buy a brand-new 1T external HD online for as low as $50.
If you have cPanel, I've been using http://backup-smart.com/good advice kyrgyz, I think I will do that today. A b'day pressie to myself.
congrats PeggyYESSSSSS!!! I got my blog back!! INTACT!
I got those same goosebumps last night Arny, when Chris emailed me to tell me that after working on those servers ALL DAY yesterday, they were able to extract the data from it, and retrieve our sites, intact! I nearly cried!
I'm on my blog right now, and gonna do a happy dance as soon as I'm finished typing!
Thanks. I'll definitely be keeping a backup on my pc from now on.congrats Peggy
if they are wiredtree resellers they might have opted for r1soft.com cdp backup feature which can backup and restore full servers within minutes from remote servers.
I also use wiredtree with r1soft cdp backups very useful but i also send backups to a non-wiredtree web server as well as download to local pc a copy of my sites.
CONGRATS!!!!!!YESSSSSS!!! I got my blog back!! INTACT!
I got those same goosebumps last night Arny, when Chris emailed me to tell me that after working on those servers ALL DAY yesterday, they were able to extract the data from it, and retrieve our sites, intact! I nearly cried!
I'm on my blog right now, and gonna do a happy dance as soon as I'm finished typing!
NEARLY??? I bet you were!!!! Congrats.OMG! I got the best news this morning.....
....I literally had goosebumps this morning and nearly got emotional when thinking that about 2.5 years of my work was wiped out! So far, the nameservers have been changed and TheMysteryDistrict.com is back up while I'm waiting for WaltDisneyBoards.com to be back and ready to rock!
First goal? Get a backup of both sites and burn them to disc as well as save them to my local computer!
I think the reason I do is the regulatory practices I have to deal with daily with my job, they require us to keep multiple backups in different locations at least 30 miles away from the main site.Over doing something is usually counter productive.
Best practice : make a nightly backup to an off site host.
And please test those backups! At least a few times a year.Thanks. I'll definitely be keeping a backup on my pc from now on.
Only seen this today. Sorry about your website.
This has no doubt been covered by now, but the excuse given by the host is nosensical - ddos attacks do not take out racks of servers or destroy data on disks - DDOS = Distibuted Denial Of Service - all it does is choke the network connectivity to your site. Most large sites suffer regular ddos attacks - take vbulletin.com, it gets them several times a year, no damage, no data loss, just an inability to access the site. Whatever happened to their server, it was not a ddos that destroyed them.
I will!And please test those backups! At least a few times a year.
yoursite.com/test <-install a copy of your backup and make sure it works.
It is easy to solve this problem, just pick a hosting provider that conducts free automated backups as part of the service package, there are many hosts that offer this today.
What about database files? Do you run a separate program for that?I use rsync to backup my data on a nightly basis to a remote host. Instead of FTPing the entire site each time, rsync can determine the difference on the remote site and transfers only what has changed.
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