Well I don’t know if I was just lucky or what on this one. I backed up my site using site 5′s backup tools. I basically backed up both database files and the home file and saved them to my desktop. Then I ftp’d the zip files the backup created onto the site to dinnerdevotee.com/backup. As far as restoring the backups. I restored the home file over the existing and after a bit of fiddling it worked fine. I didn’t bother with the database files as they were so small. I do think that I will start making archived backups somewhere. Probably get an external hard drive and save them off the computer at some point since if this laptop crashes and my site goes down, there’s basically no real way for me to recover it.
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Well it looks like you got it done. For backup, might I suggest a new service that I found called “CrashPlan”? It’s a free sevice if you backup from PC to PC or external device. It cost about $5 a month to backup to there servers. I got it, and it’s great.
Hi Iva. Thanks for the information. I will look into it. I want to make the process as easy on myself as possible, and having a service that does the backups would be really helpful.