How to backup multiple web sites?

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Hi,

We have a number of database driven sites, and sites whose content is being updated by clients using Contribute - ie 'dynamic' sites.

What's the best way of backing up these (30 or so) sites?

Ideally creating either a daily full or incremental backup.

Thanks,

Bass

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I would use AutoMySQLBackup to grab the databases, and then rsync to backup to an offsite location.

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Ah! The sites are either MS SQL, Acess or HTML that is upfdated by the client using Contribute.

I'm thinking I'll just SCHEDILE multiple WS_FTP tarnsfers, but its a REAL bore setting them up, and won't automatically do incremental backips.

Thanks,

Bass

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Oops, I assumed that you were on a LAMP server. My bad. Smiling

On a Windows machine, I would recommend SyncBack for incremental backups. I use it on a Windows server (file server, not web server), and it works well.

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Ah! The sites are on a shared server to which I only have FTP access - sorry, I'm not making this any easier am I? Wink

(www.fasthosts.co.uk)

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An Access db is a file you can backup with the other files

Not sure about MS SQL if you can use any MySQL tools - there are some tools for MS SQL on this search

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