Backing Up your VB Site ~ Nah Never!!
 

Hi Guys,

This thread is just to raise awareness on the importance of regulary backing up your forums, and perhaps doing a full back up at server level.

All you need to do is to read the amount of horror stories on here of people that have lost their site due to not having backups or their host not doing auto backups of their site.

Its one of those things, Like planning your funeral, that we never do until its too late!!, So guys today its Sunday, your not that busy, why don't we all back up our sites and add a post here to say we've done it!! ;)

Take part in the poll and be honest, your not kidding anyone apart from yourselves!! You can tick Multi, so be honest and if you don't know how to do backups then todays the day that your gonna find out. Its not as hard as it looks and it could save your forum!

If you have a problem knowing what or where to back up post here and we'll help each other out.

Heres a quick Tutorial on Backing up your all your webspace using Cpanel http://www.cpanel.net/media/tutorials/backup.htm

Today I've declared this Sunday as National VBulletin Back up day :D

Where are the positive answers? Some of us backup several times per day.

I laughed when I read this thread title. *shakes head @ UKBL* Anyway, yes, backup your site yourself even if you're using a managed hosting solution. Demand access if you have to. It will save you a headache in the future should your site ever crash and burn. I am learning the hard way today with restoring my own community with a dated 2 month old backup. At least I have that much.

I usually make a backup at the LEAST, every few days. Better to always be safe than sorry

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Also, just a suggestion for everyone on here, I use, probably always will use, Paul M's vB Database Backup (Lite) to constantly make a backup of my database. Usually have it run every few days

Every other day as a minimum.. Last backup was last night.

Lol Sorry Buddy its nothing personal, but all you need to do is read of the horror stories here nearly every week, guys with 20,000+ members losing their whole site, just because they didn't do a simple backup, alot of folk also think that their hosts do auto back ups, Think again, the responsibilty is yours as a forum owner to back up often, time period depends on how big you are but in general the larger site you are the more backups you should be doing.

I guess theres loads of members that have never done a backup, perhaps they don't know, well post here Guys and we'll help you get your Backup created, Don't be shy, we're doing this for the common good.



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Excellent Choice and easy to use too!

don't forget to save your backups too, you can save them on a memory stick or CD, but lately i've been sending them to my email account at google, Excellent to storage ;)

No need for manual backups - everything is mirrored in realtime at a 2nd machine and there compressed every 12 hours, kept for 7 days then the oldest files are renamed to the week, after 4 weekly backups the oldest renamed to the month so I've monthly, weekly and daily backups + the realtime ones.

I backup our database everynight and rsync all our files (including all attachments/avatars/torrents/etc) to a remote server every night. I also make a zipped backup of all those files once a week (separately! The attachments are over 10 GB!) and rsync them to that remote server. I also have copies of all the vb files on my mac.

I backup every time I made major changes

I back mine up everyday, have been one of those horror stories, so dont intend on losing everything again