NYCPHP Meetup

[Mitch Pirtle]

I have quite a few sites, from different clients, all with separate
email, some with MySQL, others with PostgreSQL, some in PHP, others in
python, and I have to keep their backups segregated.

For a one-man army this is a PITA.  So paying $20 monthly is worth it
for me.  Nighly is fine.  And no, I don't want to backup 3GB of IMAP
over my puny little DSL line every night...

There are dedicated providers out there that have backup as an option.
 If you really need hourly backup, then you need your own server, no?

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:00:54 -0400, Russ Demarest <rsd at electronink.com> wrote:
> What about tar and then transferring it to another system? You can
> mysqldump into that and you shoudl have a whole site. What am I
> missing? I use apollohosting and have had only limited issues. Is the
> issue incremental or hourly backups? Let's be honest if you do not own
> the server you really are not going to get real backup, ie. hourly or
> better. If I am wrong I would love to give that ISP my business.