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Discussion in 'Website hosting & Domain Names' started by Susan1814, Nov 6, 2011.

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  1. Susan1814 Active Member

    When do you backup your site? I don't need to. But when I do (get the domain), I'll update it every second, by using auto-backup on my forum.
    It might sound crazy, but like they say, anything can happen in 60 seconds.
  2. ShadyX Who else?

    Well backing up every few seconds is a bit too much but I backup twice sometimes three times daily to minimize any possible loss in case anything bad happened.
  3. Cerberus Active Member

    I back up once per day. I don't see a reason to backup any more than that.
  4. Susan1814 Active Member

    Daily works, but 12/24 hours if its easily hackable...
  5. ashimashi Active Member

    I actually only do it once every 2 or 3 days. My host already backs my site up daily but they delete the old file when they do. So I just back up every couple days and keep all the files just in case. Also remember to back up the one from your computer too. I accidentally deleted all my back ups. But luckily I backed up my back ups. But the last time I did that was 2 months ago. So I lost around 2 months of files. But it is still okay cause I still have current back ups now.
  6. Wedge AF Power User

    I back up at the end of each night :)

    I wouldnt be able to live with myself if something went wrong and my latest backup was from like a month ago.
  7. Wedge AF Power User

    I back up at the end of each night :)

    I wouldnt be able to live with myself if something went wrong and my latest backup was from like a month ago.
  8. Mr.Shy Member

    I backup every secound day

    but it does depend how active your forum is a site like myne that is only starting out wont need to be that often but a active site such as hackforums.net or AdminForums will need backups every day
  9. SpacewardAsh Active Member

    Daily, some sites I help at are running backups every 12 hours though
  10. RuneBotters Member

    I back up every few days, I forget most of the time :/
  11. Creaky Active Member

    Files are backed up weekly, database is done at least once a day
  12. Russ Goulding Active Member

  13. Wedge AF Power User

    I just backed up my files today for the first time this month.
  14. cheeseface ¢ℓαѕѕιƒιє∂..

    I backup my forum database every day and my files are done once per month.
  15. Equinox Active Member

    I backup as often as possible. But my other admins do it too.
  16. About Lee Member

    Weekly back ups. Host does daily back ups which i can grab for £5 fee.
  17. junaid Member

    I backup all account on my vps every 24hours.
  18. UpReseller New Member

    Our server is very strong and also offer offline backup weekly to other location so I never backup, just take it when I have a plan to move to another :)
  19. thomasr Member

    I have a cron job setup to do a MySQL dump every day which is stored in the files and I do the files manually about once a week.
  20. dojo Active Member

    Not as often as I should. Having a decent web hosting provider made me lazy. I should start backing up though, since some of my sites are pretty big now and losing the databases wouldn't make me too happy :D