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Originally Posted by Theater

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.

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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Originally Posted by Redlinemotorsports

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

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