Please only vote once. This Poll is for folks with virtual sites and dedicated servers. Please share your tips and procedures on exactly
how you perform backups. If you are a "host" it would also be helpfull to learn how you perform backups for your clients or if they use a control panel to perform backups. Please
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Additional questions that should help all of us: What media do you use? Where are the backups stored? What recovery method do you use? How do you backup mySQL data?
One method which I tell folks to run at least every week and which I also use via Telnet to backup an entire site:
Code:
tar -cvf - /home/mysite | gzip -c > /home/mysite/backup.tar.gz
Download (Binary) the backup.tar.gz archive and make at least 2 copies of this archive. One copy needs to go on removeable media and stored in a fireproof container off site. I like burning the archive to CD. WinZip does a dandy job of exstracting the contents of this archive if I need to recover data and or files.
And you?