Artigos de Making Backups

Making Backups 1,337 Making and keeping your own backup, and testing that it works Restoring a copy of ours is covered in how to restore your data with JetBackup. This article is about the other...
Making Backups 1,525 Backups and your Sitejet site: what is kept, and where A site made with Sitejet Builder lives in two places: in the builder, where you make it, and in your account, where...
Making Backups 1,157 Making a full cPanel backup and downloading it In cPanel, under Files, open Backup and choose to generate a full account backup. cPanel gathers everything into a...
Making Backups 1,053 Backing up a VPS: snapshots or files On an unmanaged VPS, backups are your job unless your plan says otherwise. What we say about a daily copy and 30...
Making Backups 805 Automatic backups of your own application: cron and mysqldump The account already has a daily copy made by us, before dawn. A copy of your application, made by you, serves two...
Making Backups 1,004 The 3-2-1 backup rule for a website: which three copies, and where to keep them The 3-2-1 rule says: 3 copies of what matters, on 2 different kinds of storage, with 1 copy away from where the rest...
Making Backups 1,083 Keeping your own copy of your e-mail: how to back up a mailbox Your messages are in the account and are part of the daily copy we make, but a mailbox nobody has copied out is a...
Making Backups 783 Incremental backups: what they are and when a full copy is still needed A full backup stores everything, every time. An incremental backup stores only what changed since the previous one....
Making Backups 994 How many backups to keep: daily, weekly and monthly copies without filling your space The right question is not “how many copies” but “how far back do I need to be able to go”. The answer is: at least...
Making Backups 887 Off-site backups: sending a copy to cloud storage, an S3 bucket or Google Drive An off-site copy is the one that survives losing the account. There are five ways to get one out: a WordPress backup...
Making Backups 1,194 What to back up before you update WordPress, plugins or PHP Before an update, save three things: the database, the wp-content folder (plus wp-config.php and .htaccess) and a...
Making Backups 1,093 Why a backup is huge or fails, and how to make it smaller A huge backup is almost never “the site”: it is what has piled up around the site. Cache folders, old copies...
Making Backups 975 What a backup does not include: DNS, cron jobs, certificates and outside services A copy only holds what lives inside the account, and only what that kind of copy picks up. Many people find out the...
Making Backups 1,096 Encrypted backups of a VPS with restic: a first repository, a schedule, a test restore The short answer: restic is a backup program that encrypts everything, stores only what changed since last time and...