Does anyone have any suggestions when it comes to site backups? If you have a lot of content on your site, its pretty simple to reach 10-15Gigs in no time. My question is:
- Is there a software package out there that you would recommend that will do full, incremental, and differential backups?
- The software would need to include the possibility of FTP connections
- The software would need to have the capability to backup databases as well
I do not want to spend an arm and a leg on this, but I personally do not want to download the site via FTP every single time either.
Your thoughts or suggestions?
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Personally, I handle all backups via the command line, but this is hardly user friendly. I used to do backups manually, but now I have everything run via a cron job that is processed daily. BoonEx Certified Host: Zarconia.net - Fully Supported Shared and Dedicated for Dolphin |
Thanks for you replies. I decided to go with a product called Site Vault. I figured for $19 (one site) to do exactly the things I described wasn't too bad.
It does a complete backup and then incremental backups on a scheduled basis (via task scheduler). This way it compares the files and backs up any that have been changed/updated or added since the last backup. It also does a database backup as well.
At least now I can have my site backup on a regular basis AND automatically without too much disk space usage :)
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The only thing that file backup packages generally do not handle, is database backups.
Make sure you set a CRON up to handle this. (set and forget)
You will need to look at a small script to control the database backups so that you do not end up filling up the hard drive - ie delete oldest file when you reach a set number of files, or you can do this manually.
HTH
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Personally, I handle all backups via the command line, but this is hardly user friendly. I used to do backups manually, but now I have everything run via a cron job that is processed daily.
This okay if you have relatively little data. One of my sites has over 130 Gb, incremental is a necessity in this case.
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The only thing that file backup packages generally do not handle, is database backups.
Make sure you set a CRON up to handle this. (set and forget)
You will need to look at a small script to control the database backups so that you do not end up filling up the hard drive - ie delete oldest file when you reach a set number of files, or you can do this manually.
HTH
/DM
Actually DM, This software creates scripts that are uploaded to your server that control the database backups. I just completed a Site and Database backup with no errors at the same time :)
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Thank's 4 sharing Zarcon
I realy need this I been looking for a company to do this for me without me doing this every week
now I can have some one doing this for me but one question do you know another company or this one is a good one
Thanks for you replies. I decided to go with a product called Site Vault. I figured for $19 (one site) to do exactly the things I described wasn't too bad.
It does a complete backup and then incremental backups on a scheduled basis (via task scheduler). This way it compares the files and backs up any that have been changed/updated or added since the last backup. It also does a database backup as well.
At least now I can have my site backup on a regular basis AND automatically without too much disk space usage :)
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The only thing that file backup packages generally do not handle, is database backups.
Make sure you set a CRON up to handle this. (set and forget)
You will need to look at a small script to control the database backups so that you do not end up filling up the hard drive - ie delete oldest file when you reach a set number of files, or you can do this manually.
HTH
/DM
Actually DM, This software creates scripts that are uploaded to your server that control the database backups. I just completed a Site and Database backup with no errors at the same time :)
Thats pretty cool. Seems pretty good value too.
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Thank's 4 sharing Zarcon
I realy need this I been looking for a company to do this for me without me doing this every week
now I can have some one doing this for me but one question do you know another company or this one is a good one
Thanks for you replies. I decided to go with a product called Site Vault. I figured for $19 (one site) to do exactly the things I described wasn't too bad.
It does a complete backup and then incremental backups on a scheduled basis (via task scheduler). This way it compares the files and backs up any that have been changed/updated or added since the last backup. It also does a database backup as well.
At least now I can have my site backup on a regular basis AND automatically without too much disk space usage :)
Well, From what I can say after the first backup is, I Like it :) Im sure there are others out there, but I looked a few and this seem to do the exact thing I wanted at an affordable price. I ran a backup on bot my site (18Gig) and my database, which both were successful.
It will also automatically walk you through scheduling a "automated" backup process so you do not have to launch it everytime. My site gets backed up in my sleep :)
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