discuss How often do you backup your websites?

[Ashura]

It's very important that you create backups for your websites. Some hosts even automatically create backups that you can easily download at any time from you control panel. I personally think it's best to make your own backups, that way if there's ever an issue with the automatic backup you still have a offline one. I try to backup my websites once every week or so. How about you? Do you go out your way to make backups and how often do you create backups? I typically only make database backups of my sites though too, I'm sure it's probably best to backup the whole site just in case if your theme gets broken at some point I suppose.

 

[Cpvr]

I take daily backups of my forum and also have a system in place that stores backups off-site at another location.

 

[Yama]

My host does daily back up for me. But once in a while I also do manual back up and store back up file locally.

 

[Ashake]

It's very important that you create backups for your websites. Some hosts even automatically create backups that you can easily download at any time from you control panel. I personally think it's best to make your own backups, that way if there's ever an issue with the automatic backup you still have a offline one. I try to backup my websites once every week or so. How about you? Do you go out your way to make backups and how often do you create backups? I typically only make database backups of my sites though too, I'm sure it's probably best to backup the whole site just in case if your theme gets broken at some point I suppose.

Site copying is so much important. I know it's not easy to do backup every week but it's the best practices. For me, I make it a point to backup my sites regularly on a daily basis in case something goes wrong, I can easily restore it. As you do, I also backup databases regularly, though, I also backup the entire site every now and then, files and themes inclusive.

 

[Alamson]

My website is now automatically backed up by my hosting company. This is a cushion against any unexpected failure. I had lost a whole website before due to lack of backup. It was tedious getting it running again even though there are ways of recreating most of the lost web pages.

 

[Ja sa bong]

If you have a good daily activities on your website, it's in your best interest to do daily backups because you're going to be burnt very bad should anything go wrong when you haven't backed up your data.

 

[Ja sa bong]

My website is now automatically backed up by my hosting company. This is a cushion against any unexpected failure. I had lost a whole website before due to lack of backup. It was tedious getting it running again even though there are ways of recreating most of the lost web pages.

Don't trust your hosting company 100% with doing this because they might fail and you will have yourself to blame. It doesn't take so long to do the backup by yourself.

 

[Unlocked]

When I used to run an active forum I set up cron jobs to take backups twice daily in the event of any major issues. Only once was a backup ever required and luckily it was only a few hours old, so the system paid off!

 

[ActionAce]

When I used to run an active forum I set up cron jobs to take backups twice daily in the event of any major issues. Only once was a backup ever required and luckily it was only a few hours old, so the system paid off!

That's a great strategy! It is advisable to backup the site at least twice a day. It is still more comforting when you have a backup system that has been quite effective when it was called to action, thus preventing most data loss.

 

[Harsh World]

I have an on-site backup, an off-site backup, and a local backup. The on/off-site backups are taken daily, while the local backups are taken every 2 days.

It also helps that 1 of the 2 on-site backups are snapshots instead of copied files. It allows for instant one-click recovery vs. manually restoring backups for each site on the same host.

 

[1stop]

I have an on-site backup, an off-site backup, and a local backup. The on/off-site backups are taken daily, while the local backups are taken every 2 days.

It also helps that 1 of the 2 on-site backups are snapshots instead of copied files. It allows for instant one-click recovery vs. manually restoring backups for each site on the same host.

Wow, it seems you have a very good back up that you have in place. To have on-site, off-site, and local backup protection layers offers a great deal of comfort. Another good idea is the usage of snapshots for immediate recovery. With your approach, your websites are safe and secure.

 

[Harsh World]

With your approach, your websites are safe and secure.

As much as can be after the incident that caused the data loss during the first week of our launch here, as the backup settings were accidentally overlooked when creating the domain.

I think we had 500 posts, but I was able to recover 40% of that through ChatGPT reading what it could from the corrupt database. Everything else was too unorganized to try and recreate, plus a majority of the remaining were just forum games which could easily be caught back up on with participation.

 

[Reelz]

As much as can be after the incident that caused the data loss during the first week of our launch here, as the backup settings were accidentally overlooked when creating the domain.

I think we had 500 posts, but I was able to recover 40% of that through ChatGPT reading what it could from the corrupt database. Everything else was too unorganized to try and recreate, plus a majority of the remaining were just forum games which could easily be caught back up on with participation.

That is a valuable lesson learned. I’m glad you’ve added backups after the incident. It will be disastrous to lose data, much more during a launch. How where you able to use ChatGPT to restore some of your lost data?

 

[Harsh World]

How where you able to use ChatGPT to restore some of your lost data?

The IBD (database) files looked like what a Word document would look like if you opened it in Notepad, having blocks of text surrounded by random characters.

I was able to instruct it to give me JSON-formatted data, cleaning up/removing non-human readable characters that were sporadic in text, with what it thought could be the user and message and in which thread. Most of the time, it could put the pieces together. But, some of the data was scattered too much, like the word games, etc., where it couldn't properly guess who posted what and in what order, and neither could I, unless I pieced it together (like the last letter/first letter game) manually, which would've taken much more time than to just recreate the thread.

Without GPT, I would've had to start from scratch. But, a 40% recovery was nice (up to 60% if I did more work to piece the remains together).

 

[gwolf666]

every 2 weeks approximately, the normal thing would be every month but every 2 weeks gives me more security, because I make many changes constantly

 

[Harsh World]

every 2 weeks approximately

because I make many changes constantly

My advice would be to evaluate what your time is worth.

If you took 5 hours to make changes and lost that in 2 weeks for whatever reason, how much is your time worth to redo it or the lost time you could've focused elsewhere, but couldn't because you're stuck manually redoing previous work?

You should implement some sort of 1-click backup/restore system and save it to/restore it from Object Storage. You could probably make 1000 backups before it costs more than $5.

So, is even the chance of losing 15 minutes of work during a 2 week period worth more or less than $5 per month? I know the answer to that for me, but it might not be for everyone — it would really depend on what you're doing and if it's a risk you're willing to take.

 

[Lord Severus]

I have autoset up a backup that works every day at 2AM (my time).

One day's changes I make in website/forum, new members, new posts and threads and the currency that people earn are too precious. Given the chance, I would be more than willing to take the backup every 12 hours

The money that I spend for it are no big deal because its cheap anyway. If I run out of space, that would mean that my forum is growing and that I should switch to a new hosting provider/plan.