How often do you take a backup?

[Dancing Mongoose]

How often do you take a back-up of your websites's database. Every week? Every day or every month, perhaps? Or even never as your hosting may automatically back-up your database ever 24 hours, do they? Share how often you take a backup?

 

[Blue_Cardinal]

Heh. *cries*

Last time I took a backup of mine was about a month ago. I'm really lazy and forgetful when it comes to all the backup things. However luckily there's a Wordpress plugin that takes the backup and emails it to me which is amazing.

Without the plugin I'd be a hackers paradise. Heh. My host is small and only takes "monthly" backups, (because that's totally helpful) so no they do not take backups on their side.

 

[ddoesmc]

I backup my sites weekly. If we are under attack, I set it to hourly.

 

[Shortie]

My hosting now takes a backup on a daily basis however prior to using this host it used to be something I would have to remember to do myself rather than have done automatically which meant I missed days and have had problems in the past with needing a backup and not having a recent one. Very happy that I now have it done automatically as it's one weight off my mind.

 

[Creaky1]

Every day, I have a script that backs up the database every night and a weekly filesystem backup. My hosts also backs up daily, weekly etc.

 

[Martin]

I normally always forget, it's something I desperately need to work on getting into a schedule of frequent back ups to be honest - if one of my sites was a bigger size I would lose a lot of content.

 

[ddoesmc]

Every day, I have a script that backs up the database every night and a weekly filesystem backup. My hosts also backs up daily, weekly etc.

Do you ever remove those daily backups to open space etc?

 

[Creaky1]

Do you ever remove those daily backups to open space etc?

The daily backups are downloaded each night to my own PC, they don't stay on the server.

 

[reddyash]

My server takes backup every day and stores the information in the server. I personally take the latest back up and have it stored in my laptop and storage device.

 

[Cam]

I have daily automatic backups for the majority of my websites. They stay on the server for one week, and then they are pruned. I also try to take my download my own backups as often as I can. My internet connection sucks though, so that can be a struggle at times. :yum:

 

[CoolixHD]

I don't do backups. Because, I don't just give anyone access to the ACP or Database. I will only give people access to these substances if I know them for a really long time and collaborated with them to know if they're trustworthy.

 

[alakazam]

I usually take backups of my current website once a week, or two times a week at most. My hosting company is supposed to take daily backups, but I don't rely on them, cause we all know how hosting companies can be... They know that small website owners won't sue them if they suffer data loss...

 

[Bass]

My community runs on MyBB, and they have a setting that allows you to choose if and when you want backups to be taken, automatically. By default, the option is set to 'weekly' but is disabled. I enabled it and set it to 'daily' as there have been occurences in the past where I have lost valuable data due to not taking database backups frequently enough.