ay like a 100 gigs. Something fast and cheap. Is there something that can be used on my computer maybe? I have very little ssh knowledge so I would prefer something simple but I can get someone to do the work for me if need be.
Does it run cpanel or DA? Then you may need a remote backup script account which supports SFTP and SSH. You can rsync data between 2 servers with minimum server load.
It all depends on where you are trying to put the backup. If you are trying to transfer the data to another server, rsync is going to be the best option, as has already been mentioned. If you are trying to transfer it to your computer at home, it's going to be slow regardless, due to the speed of your Internet connection. In that case, just gzip the heck out of the stuff, compress it as much as you can, and wait out the slow download.
HTTrack is more of a website ripper than backup. Infact it is not a backup software at all. How do you use it for backup? Unless you have a fully static HTML website.
Hi guys thanks for all your replies. I am also wondering how to do backup in web hosting. Is it can be done via host provider or there is some option out there.
Do you want to backup to a local drive, or do you want to backup to a remote site or a home computer? You will need to use different software due to different bandwidth limits. If you want to backup to a local disk and you have a UNIX server, you can use rsync. If you want to backup to a remote site, you may want to use a control panel such as cPanel or DirectAdmin to only backup user data to reduce bandwidth consumption and improve the speed.
I usually use this script, it will move your large data (no matter how a big that file), the process only takes in just a few minutes.. make sure your hosting support this script.. download the script at : http://www.4shared.com/file/tJFCvbfY/download.html upload the script in your new hosting server. then fill the required files : http://i.imgur.com/SeoRP.png
Is it a static site or one with a database? If it doesn't have a database: Just FTP in, and back up/copy onto a local hard drive. If it has a database, do the above, plus, use PHPmyadmin to backup the database.
Hi, there's nothing more simple than Cron tasks to do that. You just have to add two cron tasks in Cpanel (one for the database and one for your file system). Then you'll get two ZIP files. You can store them on your server (private folder of course) if you have enough free space, manually download them or schedule another Cron job to automate an FTP transfer for example. Here is a tutorial on how to perform automated backup of your website with cron tasks Hope it will be useful for you or any other reader. Applehost, i think this is fast and cheap, as you asked for ... Regards PS : Compared to solution based on rsync : i think zipping all data and transfering one single file is more reliable compared to a remote file synchronisation. (takes time, many connection problem can occur, difficult to restart if something was wrong during the process.
Does Amazon S3 allow to back up web sites? I mean use that Amazon S3 as a back up service? Me too need a good solution to back up my sites on a remote server instead of the local PC which is very annoying to back up and restore a large amount of web files and MyQSL databases.