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To keep cost down you went with a local small hosting company. Their server’s hard drive crashed. Your site was hacked and hacker was kind enough to delete all your files. Your web host disappeared with your money and your data. Even worse case there was earth quake and your ISP’s building has gone down and everything is lost.  EVEN WORSE- it’s your own fault!? You forget to pay your host and they take your site down. GoDaddy charges $159 to restore your site from their back up.  Okay wake up from your dream, hopefully you never encounter this situation. But if you are not prepared for these situations, your site may be lost forever and you have to start over. That is why it is of the utmost importance that you keep regular backups of your data.

Where this backup should be preserved?
Put it on a disc! In most cases your site can fit on one DVD that will make it easy to restore if necessary. You can also store this on a jump drive or another machine; however it is strongly encouraged to keep a backup on disc too.

How frequently should a backup should be taken?
If your site is not changing over a period of time then I will say take backup only once and keep it on your floppy or hard disc or data disc or DVD wherever you like. In case you need to restore it, just do it and see your web site up and running.But if your site is changing over the period of time then it becomes very important to take regular backup. Web sites like amazon.com have very tight backup schedules and very expansive backup infrastructure.

Should I back up my Database?
…..HECK Yes!!!

What type of backup should be taken?
There are two types of backup: incremental and full. This depends on what type of backup tools you are using. There are many backup tools like oracle provides their utilities to take different type of backup.

• Incremental Backup - The backup’s controller compares the existing backup to the data that you wish to backup. If it is an exact match between the two, then no additional files will be backed up. However, if you have added or edited any file, these files will be updated in the backup, thus the incremental name.
• Full Backup - Here all files are written to the backup, even if they already exist in the most current backup.

Who should backup my site?
Graphico Design of course!!  Go Daddy $159, Rebuild your site $800 - $1500, Spend $35 for a back up disc from Graphico Design…Priceless!!!

Conclusion:
So now you decide how do you want to take your backup but I will say if you are web site owner then its is your religion to take regular backup without a failure otherwise…..results are very serious Talk to Graphico Design.