Automate Your Web Site Backup!

Posted by suvi under Backup

During the weekend (Saturday), UbuntuLinuxHelp was down for almost 12 hours.spacer_gif Automate Your Web Site Backup! Fortunately the hosting provider had data backups and there was no data loss. In any event, I also keep backups, so the added redundancy helps to protect the content. Up to now, the server has been configured to create a daily backup of databases and certain directories; and those (.gz files) are downloaded manually to another location later.spacer_gif Automate Your Web Site Backup!

But, what if there were no backups? What if your hosting provider cannot restore data at their end? To be blunt, you’d be back to square one! Developing a whole new site or blog from the beginning!spacer_gif Automate Your Web Site Backup! That’s a chilling thought, to lose everything and start again.spacer_gif Automate Your Web Site Backup!

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