Thought on backup your site?

[PrimeGeek]

I have site hosted on Cpanel. I did a backup, now I dont want my members to lose their info, accounts etc. So what other ways do some of the community here back up their info?

 

[Max Taxable]

Mine is done automatically by the host. I think hourly? And stored on a different machine.

 

[bzcomputers]

I have site hosted on Cpanel. I did a backup, now I don't want my members to lose their info, accounts etc. So what other ways do some of the community here back up their info?

Outside of any manual backups you may be doing your host should at the minimum be doing daily backups and keeping them for at least two weeks. If they aren't ask them to, if they won't find a new host.

My personal servers are setup to do:
1) Daily Backups - Monday through Saturday - which are kept for two weeks
2) Weekly Backups - every Sunday - which are kept for 4 weeks
3) Monthly Backups - 1st day of the month - which are kept for 4 months

These backups are saved on the same server (different SSD) and duplicated on another sever completely offsite and in another area of the country. A backup is only good if it still exists and can be accessed.

This strategy has protected my through accidental mistakes, intentional hacks, and a couple natural disasters without worry.

IF you have a really active forum I would recommend backing up more often than once a day, you may only be able to get this with a dedicated server.

 

[Mendalla]

My host does backups but I also take manual snapshots before upgrades and other major changes to simplify rolling back (which I have had to do at least once due to a slip of the finger).

 

[BoostN]

I use a CRON job that takes mysql dumps and file backups daily and then those are kept on the same server, but also sent to a S3 bucket off the server in case something happens there.

 

[eva2000]

Linode native daily backups + own custom scripted backups every 3hrs saved locally and also sent to Amazon s3 bucket for remote storage Using fast multithreaded gzip, pigz compression but will be switching to facebook's zstd compression for smaller compressed backup file sizes https://community.centminmod.com/th...d-vs-brotli-vs-pigz-vs-bzip2-vs-xz-etc.17259/

 

[Jake B.]

Linode native daily backups

Just to add onto this, I'd definitely recommend against relying solely on their backups. They'll only ever keep two weekly and one daily backups for you. You get to choose a two hour window for the backup to occur in, and a day of the week for your weekly backup point. So if you set this to Sunday between midnight and 2am,something happens Saturday at 11:59 PM and your backup triggers at 12:00, for example, your latest weekly and daily backup are both essentially useless and you're stuck restoring to something a full week old

 

[eva2000]

Just to add onto this, I'd definitely recommend against relying solely on their backups. They'll only ever keep two weekly and one daily backups for you. You get to choose a two hour window for the backup to occur in, and a day of the week for your weekly backup point. So if you set this to Sunday between midnight and 2am,something happens Saturday at 11:59 PM and your backup triggers at 12:00, for example, your latest weekly and daily backup are both essentially useless and you're stuck restoring to something a full week old

Yeah that's why I have my own custom backups as well. Linode snapshot system is good for cloning VPS servers though for setting up test staging servers which are 100% identical