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Where do you backup websites and more

by Chuck Burke
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Hey Warriors. Where to you backup your websites as well as
your own stuff. PDF's,documents, files, photos and everything else ?
Disc's ? (not), external hard drive or cloud ?

What is the current method of choice ?
#backup #websites
  • Profile picture of the author JRWashington
    Using the Cloud! Mainly, because it's cheap (most of the time free), but I am considering getting an external hard drive!
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  • Profile picture of the author fallison
    Every time I get an external drive, I end up filling it with more stuff. For that reason, I use the cloud for backup. Cheap and available anytime, any where.
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    • Profile picture of the author Max BNC
      On the cloud. Try Google drive, they have a free 10 GB plan, if this isnt enough there is also Dropbox, and Skydrive, they also have free plans. Today it is very handy to have your documents accessible from anywhere so you don't have to carry hard drives around. It is also more secure, a cloud will never crash, they have backups of backups of backups.
      To back up your website, if you are using wordpress, there are many plugin that can automate the process and save it straight to the cloud.
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  • Profile picture of the author janicetalberty
    google drive.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Tandan
    Sounds like the Cloud gets the popular vote, for good reason. I use it myself, currently mainly via google drive.
    But for really critical common documents and images, I further back those up to an external drive. Double redundancy, just in case ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Centarra
    For important business content, I use multiple off-site backups (see Backupsy.com). For personal backups, I use BackBlaze because it's just so simple.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
    I use Skydrive for online backup, and is it ever slick. You don't even notice it backing things up.

    For offline, I also back up to a second drive in the computer, and to an external hard drive.
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  • Profile picture of the author rodelu
    I use both an external hard drive as well as Dropbox. I would strongly suggest backing up to the cloud, as it's easily accessible from anywhere and it's either free or very cheap.
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  • Profile picture of the author LuckyIMer
    My host does it for me, I never sign with a host if backup is not included, I also back up important sites offline on my PC every week.
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  • Profile picture of the author GailTrahd
    MagicRich isn't backing up at all

    I manually back up my sites to my hard drive each week and then Mozy automatically backs up my hard drive every 24 hours.
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    • Profile picture of the author kilgore
      I like to have local and cloud copies of everything. Our website is hosted on Amazon Web Services, so it's pretty easy to keep cloud-based backups, and we have a local server as well so the cloud-based data gets saved locally and the local data gets saved on the cloud. Of course we also keep cloud-based backups of cloud data and locally-based copies of local data. Data is cheap.

      Our backup plan is probably overly technical (and frankly overkill) for most people here, so I won't really go into details. But whatever you do and whatever software you buy or processes you implement, I strongly recommend that you:
      • Don't rely on your host's backups. Even if they are backing up your files, do you really want to have to wait on them to get your data back? And what if they aren't backing up your files like they promise to be?
      • Have multiple backups spanning multiple time periods. You absolutely need the latest copy of your data, but what if your site is hacked and the latest copy is just a copy of your hacked website? Lots of backup software stores only the differences in the files between backups which means you can keep multiple versons of your files without using a lot of data. But even if you have to make full data-intensive copies of everything, data is cheap.
      • Automate as much as you can, ideally the entire process from backup to restore. Backups should just happen. You don't want to have to rely on your memory to make sure they happen.
      • Rehearse your disaster recovery steps. The last thing you want to have happen when the shit hits the fan is that a file you thought was backed up isn't there or that your backup (or restore) scripts aren't working right. This goes for the smallest site as well as the largest. Even if you have a $1/month hosting account on some shared server somewhere, pay another $1 for a month to get a seperate account and make sure you can rebuild your site with the backups you're taking.
      • Secure your backups as you would your live data. It's essentially the same thing after all!
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