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    ) Full site back ups and home directory back ups.

    Since the crash I keep all the above back ups, almost in an obsessive compulsive way. It may sound like a bit much, but you can create a back up schedule that’s near foolproof and bandwidth frugal. You won’t need to back up in every single way, every single day. Each site will have different needs when it com

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    1. Back ups are lifesavers, if done correctly

    I had fairly recent or full back ups (on my PC and CD-RW) of all the sites I’ve designed, a handful of which belong to clients and not myself.

    I ended up reworking a few recent changes, like content deletions I had made in the weeks prior.

    There were glitches, despite all of my precautions. For example, I had depended solely on CPANEL for my forum database backup. Apparently the database had grown so large that when downloading the daily back up some of the database had been cut off. Large pieces of the forum database were lost.

    Now I know to back up in multiple forms, like:

    a) Structure only and data only.

    Tip: Prune the data regularly to avoid mega-sizing your databases.

    b) Compressed and not compressed.

    c) Software/browser back up and CPANEL back up.

    d) Table-specific back ups on larger databases (especially for USERS table!)

    e) Saved files (incl. install files) for software, mods, and scripts that you use, including their MySQL and Admin username/passwords.

    f) Full site back ups and home directory back ups.

    Since the crash I keep all the above back ups, almost in an obsessive compulsive way. It may sound like a bit much, but you can create a back up schedule that’s near foolproof and bandwidth frugal. You won’t need to back up in every single way, every single day. Each site will have different needs when it come

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    nce.

    1. Back ups are lifesavers, if done correctly

    I had fairly recent or full back ups (on my PC and CD-RW) of all the sites I’ve designed, a handful of which belong to clients and not myself.

    I ended up reworking a few recent changes, like content deletions I had made in the weeks prior.

    There were glitches, despite all of my precautions. For example, I had depended solely on CPANEL for my forum database backup. Apparently the database had grown so large that when downloading the daily back up some of the database had been cut off. Large pieces of the forum database were lost.

    Now I know to back up in multiple forms, like:

    a) Structure only and data only.

    Tip: Prune the data regularly to avoid mega-sizing your databases.

    b) Compressed and not compressed.

    c) Software/browser back up and CPANEL back up.

    d) Table-specific back ups on larger databases (especially for USERS table!)

    e) Saved files (incl. install files) for software, mods, and scripts that you use, including their MySQL and Admin username/passwords.

    f) Full site back ups and home directory back ups.

    Since the crash I keep all the above back ups, almost in an obsessive compulsive way. It may sound like a bit much, but you can create a back up schedule that’s near foolproof and bandwidth frugal. You won’t need to back up in every single way, every single day. Each site will have different needs when it com

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    For example, I had depended solely on CPANEL for my forum database backup. Apparently the database had grown so large that when downloading the daily back up some of the database had been cut off. Large pieces of the forum database were lost.

    Now I know to back up in multiple forms, like:

    a) Structure only and data only.

    Tip: Prune the data regularly to avoid mega-sizing your databases.

    b) Compressed and not compressed.

    c) Software/browser back up and CPANEL back up.

    d) Table-specific back ups on larger databases (especially for USERS table!)

    e) Saved files (incl. install files) for software, mods, and scripts that you use, including their MySQL and Admin username/passwords.

    f) Full site back ups and home directory back ups.

    Since the crash I keep all the above back ups, almost in an obsessive compulsive way. It may sound like a bit much, but you can create a back up schedule that’s near foolproof and bandwidth frugal. You won’t need to back up in every single way, every single day. Each site will have different needs when it com

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    arly to avoid mega-sizing your databases.

    b) Compressed and not compressed.

    c) Software/browser back up and CPANEL back up.

    d) Table-specific back ups on larger databases (especially for USERS table!)

    e) Saved files (incl. install files) for software, mods, and scripts that you use, including their MySQL and Admin username/passwords.

    f) Full site back ups and home directory back ups.

    Since the crash I keep all the above back ups, almost in an obsessive compulsive way. It may sound like a bit much, but you can create a back up schedule that’s near foolproof and bandwidth frugal. You won’t need to back up in every single way, every single day. Each site will have different needs when it com

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    ) Full site back ups and home directory back ups.

    Since the crash I keep all the above back ups, almost in an obsessive compulsive way. It may sound like a bit much, but you can create a back up schedule that’s near foolproof and bandwidth frugal. You won’t need to back up in every single way, every single day. Each site will have different needs when it comes to backups.

    2. Not everyone backs up!?!

    It’s true that webhosts back up their drives, usually every night. However, in our server nightmare, their back up was corrupted by an employee of a company they outsource to. The poor fellow ended up shattering that server-backup, which a few unfortunate webmasters had been counting on.

    As long as you’re planning on having a website presence, it’s almost guaranteed that at some point you will have a server crash. Get in the “safe keeping” habit, before it’s too late and you end up missing your site(s), or having forty angry clients calling you and demanding their (forever lost!) websites be “up and running pronto!”

    3. Spread your sites out on more than one webhost

    I heard Jodie Lynn (http://www.parenttoparent.com/) recommend this on WAHM Talk Radio (http://www.wahmtalkradio.com/), but I put it off. It would have been a little less stressful if only half of the sites I manage went down with that crash. I’ve finally listened to Jodie’s advice.

    4. When it happens, stay calm

    Our websites were down for 12-24 hours, and in a few cases 36 hours as I moved some sites to a different host. I worried about my regular site visitors, Google ranking, Adsense, and the long haul of getting it all pieced together again.

    The Aftermath:

    -My forum regulars weren’t lost for long, and having a fresh install wasn’t so bad. Obviously any search engine traffic and earnin

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