Directory Owners: How Often Do You Backup?

Sorry if this was posted before, I couldn't find it in search so Ill start a topic.

How often do you backup your directories?

I backup daily or as much as I can now, because link submissions have increased to at least 100 per day now (not all at once but through all the day all together), and I can't afford to lose all those links.

Since it happened to me before, I've learned my lesson.

 

Yeah, at least once a day, in your case.

I actually backup less often, but always if someone starts a thread like yours or complaining for having lost the database contents!

Otherwise more or less every week, but I have a niche with much less submissions (BTW, if interested, get a link from my SEO directory for free, if yours is SEO friendly and isn't already listed)

 

Once a month

 

Host does it nightly...

 

My directories are all backed up automatically each night.
Seems to work okay.

 

Ok if you bakc it up, and somthing does go wrong, how do you put it back up?

 

Go to the backup page in your cpanel and upload the backups from your computer.

 

How often do I back up? Well, everytime some ones posts one of those sob stories of how they lost their entire database, I usually do a backup.

 

LOL....
But keep in mind, one day it may be your posting a sob story of how you lost your entire database.

 

Nope. After all, I said that I did do some backups. Every week or so I backup all my databases. My directories are paid though, and I have records and receipts of all my submissions, if I did lose a weeks worth of listings. The guys running free directories and getting hundreds of submissions a day should obviously backup every chance they get.

 

i backup my directories daily

 

bed boys, How often do you backup your directories

 

Every 10 submissions backup and do a backup onto disk for secure storage 1 every 20 days i have a usb storage device and backup onto it every 15-20 days overwriting the older on so i always have a complete and secure offline backup.

 

If I was to backup every 10 submissions that means I would be going to the backup page every 2 minutes. I run a free submissions directory, going paid when next pr update comes around..

 

Being a ballroom dancer too, I backup about 50% of the time.

 

I have everything localized in my Dev environment. I only backup web stuff when I start adding more links.

1 backup for dev
1 backup on dvd

 

I backup daily on server and remotely.

 

I back up my db everyday.

 

Weekly via cron, a 120mb (ish) database is a lot to loose.