How to backup your website

[areidmtm]

Everyone should backup their sites regularly! It's quick and easy and will give you peace of mind. Login into cPanel (www.yourdomain.com/securecontrolpanel) and follow this instructional video.

http://bluehost.com/demo/cpanel_xskin_backup.htm

Then keep your files in a safe place. You should keep your files in several places just in case. (Home, Work and somewhere offsite)

Mozy is a great tool that will automatically encrypt and backup your files off of your hard drive. It's free and really easy to use. The free account comes with 2GB of space! Also check out the referral program. The more people you get to sign up, the more space you get. (If you feel so inclined, you can sign up with my referral ID, M3AH46 and you will get an extra 256mb! )

[Hamjat]

Never done a backup...I thought BlueHost is doing the backup for us.

[silentcollision]

I've got three backups of my sites in two different houses, not including online backups. I'm not risking losing my content.

[lunatinker]

I've got three backups of my sites in two different houses, not including online backups. I'm not risking losing my content.

your site : http://www.silentcollision.com/
lacks an index for /www or /public_html or .htacess forwarding/aliasing.
er.....nice looking sites too! i don't backup anything. not until i have content. lol

[KKEN]

I have a set of backups on 3 CD's (rewritable) and on 3 different PC's. This subject is a sore spot for me. I have had the experience where one of my early hosts had a catastropic failure of a server. Complete hardware failure and their backups were hosed as well. (at least that was what the email stated) Any changes I made on the site via control panel/file manager were gone too! (had the bad habit of just doing html changes remotely and didnt wait to do it when I got home)
I increment my backups and I rotate 3 cds. (in case one of them gets bad)
Just ordered a new 250GB WD external drive and will utilize it as well.
KKEN

[borderline]

newbie question:
if i back up my coppermine database, apart from the settings, it backs up all the pictures as well, right?
does anyone knows how long would it take to back up an entire coppermine gallery with more than 2000 pictures?
will I get CPU errors while backing up? if I do, do I have to start all over again or is there a resume download?

[silentcollision]

your site : http://www.silentcollision.com/
lacks an index for /www or /public_html or .htacess forwarding/aliasing.
er.....nice looking sites too! i don't backup anything. not until i have content. lol

I run far more than that one website, and its down for a re-design. I also do web design and development for other people, which I backup for their reference as well as mine.

Seriously, all you had to do was do some quick research and you'd see that I run an image hosting site, which I backup, rather than trying to undermine my opinion.

[dixieau]

From one who only backups sporadically, I would definitely suggest backups!

Yesterday I was fiddling with php code and crashed my main site, baring in mind I have 6 in all. My backup was from 27 Feb (I forgot to do one before fiddling which is my usual practice and usually only backup the site I am working on).

I resorted to Bluehost restoring their daily backup, 4.5 hours and 4 or 5 different reinstalls later we finally succeeded after moving to a level 1 tech! Something just kept going wrong (no idea what).

My lesson, you just cannot rely on BH backups alone, if I had have had a more current one I could have restored the one domain that needed it, not the whole account.

NB. BH team were absolutely marvellous yesterday, they went above and beyond in my opinion to help me out when I was solely responsible for the problem. Thanks BH (I am glad I am renewing with you guys, I just wish you had mutli-domain/cpanel accounts!)

Now I am heading off to try and find a good tutorial on how to setup cron job to backup for me! Anybody know a good one?

[areidmtm]

Never done a backup...I thought BlueHost is doing the backup for us.

Bluehost is automatically doing backups for you, daily, weekly and monthy. But it is also a good idea to do them yourself. Thing might happen on BH end so it's just a good extra precaution to have several copies for yourself.

[lauramba]

Bluehost is automatically doing backups for you, daily, weekly and monthy. But it is also a good idea to do them yourself. Thing might happen on BH end so it's just a good extra precaution to have several copies for yourself.

That is curious since when my site was hacked I called tech support and they told me they did not have a backup. Hmmm ...