What Should You Know About Website Backup?
Your business or job position depends on the website workability.
The irretrievable loss of files and databases can be just a pity, but
in most cases it can be a tragedy, like a loss of a source of income.Of course, today's hosting providers are reliable enough and such
cases are few and far between, but they are not so rare to ignore them.
The sites are hacked damaging the data base and infecting files.
The web hosting control panels, such as DirectAdmin, cPanel, ISPConfig,
GPLHost, ISPmanager have different ways to backup sites. But it's
worth checking up if you can restore the site from backup copy made
by these means. You may face the next difficulties - backup is done
rarely, irregularly, and sometimes it does not exist at all. Big sites
have another problem - the backup fills the place given by the provider
for the website itself, that's why you can't make copies frequently
because of the rapid filling of disk space.
Program Main Interface
But there is another problem - a copy of the site can be physically
present at the same hard drive as the site itself and if it's crashed,
both of them(the website and backup) simply disappear.
If you think about the additional data backup of your site, it is
easy to do - you can merge the backup files of your site using any free
FTP client such as FileZilla, and creating a dump of the database through
PhpMyAdmin - just select your database and click "Import"
button.
It can easily be a part of your daily routine, combining for example
with the morning coffee. If there are multiple amount of sites, so your coffee can be outlasted
, that is why you should intrust the program
BackupSF with this routine. The program'll independently and regularly backup
files of your site and database on your local computer. You'll just need to enter username and password,
database name data, user and password and the address of the database
server and set a regularity of backup. If you do not trust the reliability
of your hard drive - use the sync folder of Dropbox, SugarSynk, Google
Drive, or a similar cloud service storage as backup folder in the programe
BackupSF.
Setting
The data backup is considered to be the most
reliable if only the backup copy is stored in three different places.
They are - a backup done by your hosting provider, copy on your PC and also copying a clone of your web site in the cloud service - you can be completely
tranquil.
Our Verdict
BackupSF are a very useful and reliable tool which serves
webmaster an alternative backup solution to data on the website which usually
provided by the web hosting. BackupSF also allow user set a scheduled time to
perform a backup of the website automatically as having an updated database is
crucial to avoid the possibility of data loss in case of an unexpected server
or hard disk crash.
Other great features which offered by BackupSF is that it allows
the synchronization of a copy of the backed up data to the preferred cloud
storage services such as Dropbox. This will provide a greater assurance and
protection of the backup data in any worst case scenario.
Touching on the interface of the program, we would say that BackupSF
provides a rather tidy and user friendly interface which consist of four main
panels,
- the control panel menu bar which allows user to add,
remove and also edit the contents and settings of the program.
- working area that allows users to control and manage all
the current backup projects
- status window that shows the current status of the current
ongoing backups and cancel the process when needed.
-general log that provides information of any completed or
failed backup process and its error which causes it.
For more detailed information regarding the program
interface, please visit the
page here.
DownloadInterested user can download the
trial version for evaluation from the link provided below with limitation as follows:
- valids for one week
- add 5 websites to backup
- add5 MySql
database.
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