Daily Backups?

sak · Regular Joined: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 84

I'm just wondering about the daily backups. I notice there is a button for Daily and button for Weekly backups within cPanel backup menu.

Just curious:

1) Backups working reliably each day?
2) How many backups are retained?
3) Where do these backups go?
4) Anything else I should know?

Thanks ahead of time Smile

My site's doing great -- thanks for the awesome hosting! Things have been speedy, reliable, and absolutely no complaints. The service is the best out there.

We're advocating the removal of current government, and the site hasn't come down yet. I think we'll really test raven's limits here Cool

P.S. -- where'd you get that timezone mod that you use on this site? I like how it displays the times so that users can be sure to choose the correct timezone. May I have? Wink

Raven · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:56 pm

We are now using incremental nightly backups. They are accessible through your cPanel.

Glad to hear that everything is going well Cheers

I don't know where I got the mod. Look at all the phpbb mods. I think it's one that works in nuke w/o any changes. But, be sure to backup the files before you change them Wink

sak · Regular Joined: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 84

Raven wrote:

But, be sure to backup the files before you change them Wink

No doubt

I've created a method that seems somewhat satisfactory. I create a copy of each file I change, and note all of the changes at the bottom. The backup keeps the same filename with a different extension and features all of the original RN code with changes ONLY noted at the bottom.

I figured this will leave a trail anytime I upgrade and need to put hacks back in. Otherwise you wind up changing/adding/removing/etc things inside files, and soon comes the day when you can't remember what files were changed and how Very Happy

Learned that one the hard way Wink