Back up your Website - and Why?

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cthisbear
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Back up your Website - and Why?

#1 Post by cthisbear »

4800 Aussie sites evaporate after hack.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/securi ... 1gd1h.html

" On the Whirlpool discussion forums, where there are over 60 pages of posts discussing the Distribute.IT hack, customers were livid at finding out their data was gone forever.

"I think I'm in shock ... I have lost everything .... I couldnt possibly replicate all those years of work again ... my whole lifes work is gone down the drain," wrote one. "

Read more:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/securi ... z1PthK3nQE

Chris.

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#2 Post by alienjeff »

Redundant local back up with one fire/water protected, portable back up, and remote back up. Avoid Microsoft webservers like the plague.

rsync FTW
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