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[Narkissos]

...back up your forum?

Daily? (at the same time each night?)

Bi-weekly?

Weekly?

Monthly?

And how is your choice (or the regularity thereof) related to the size of your forum?

Discuss.

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[Harro]

I do it everytime I think about it.
Was just gonna do it before I read this topic
I do it maybe 2-3 times a month.
Always do a full backup of all the files and the database.
Size doesn't really matters for me.

[Narkissos]

^^

I do mine almost nightly.

I gave my secondary admin access to this specific area as well.. to update regularly in my absence.

I think the bigger the forum gets, the more regularly it should be updated.

Case in point.. I was perusing one of the forums i moderate elsewhere and then i got a network error.

When the site was back up, a couple days worth of posts had disappeared.

I'm guessing that the server was overloaded, the site crashed and they had to load the  most recent back-up.

-N

[Harro]

I think the bigger the forum gets, the more regularly it should be updated.

Ofcourse, it all depends on the size of the forum.
If you get a couple hundred new posts everyday it's not very smart to backup only twice a month.
Should be at least every night then.

[trebul]

I try to back up everything at least once a week sometimes more if I'm bored.

[5cakids]

Oh man I dont do it often enough I guess. I need to do more often. Where do you guys store them? I was thinking of storing it to a disk in case my computer crashes.

[Narkissos]

^^Save a copy to your hard-drive; save a copy to an external drive...like a memory stick; or email a copy to yourself and your admin(s)

[Harro]

I just download them to my harddrive.

[bambolin]

My hosting company does that for me they keep a daily backup

[Harro]

Most hosting companies do that.
But it's easy if you do it yourself as well.
No need to contact them, wait for an answer,... if anything goes wrong.

[Dakuipje]

Monthly.
But I should do it more often.....

[Stroh]

I do it once a week. The reason why is because I remember having trouble once, and I had to make a quick recover.

[technoguy]

I take backup weekly, but its not a fix schedule, sometimes I take when I think its necessary to take backup.

[slipknot]

i backup my database every week.that the main important thing

[Narkissos]

^^I'm a pessimist.

My member base has been growing..as have my posts and topics per day.

I've seen too many times a forum crashes and 2-3 days worth of posts may be lost.

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