Yesterday, when I wrote the article about domain names and hosting , I thought about another very similar topic. It’s about the subject of back up strategy. What back up strategies do I have in place and what back up strategies are there. I know it might sound a little bit too secure, but it is always good to be prepared for bad things on the Internet!
What back-up strategies can be employed?
Basically, what this question tries to ask is what can be backed-up and what can not be. And it tries to ask what should be backed-up and for what reason. I think, that many of you will agree with me, that your data are very valuable to you and thus they deserve to be backed-up while hosted by a third party. But even when you host your data yourselves it’s a very good idea to back everything up!
Database back-up
You can back up different parts of your web site and the first thing I would perform is a very often database back up. It should be your first line of defense. To have a database back up is crucially important if something bad happens. But with a database back up you can get your data back very easily and quickly.
Database systems do have a back up feature build in, or there is another very easy way to back your whole database data up. you just need to read the documentation and figure out the best way.
Whole web space back-up
Another approach you could take i to back up your entire web space. This is performed by backing up the whole directory and all it’s contents. It requires a lot of additional disk space when performed, but this way you will not lose anything. Remember to back up the database as well, if it is not included and is hosted on a different server. This is very important, because the web files themselves are not that much valuable without the database 
Always remember to download the back up to a different place and do not hold it on the same server as your web site! The server goes down and so doe your back up… .
Important files back up
In this scenario you just back up the most important files and folders your site needs and leave the rest of the site untouched. It’s good mostly when you really care only about the important parts of your web site and don’t regard other parts to be as important.
Once again, you should remember, that if you need the database data you need to perform a database back up as well….
I think, that many of you might come up with far better back up strategies. You are maybe even using a far better strategy. If you will like sharing your strategy with the rest of the world don’t hesitate to leave a comment and describe it Have a nice day!
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