Backup

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This article is a portal to various strategies and tools for backup of data on your DreamHost sites.

Contents 1 Backups automatically kept on Dreamhost 2 Data Restoration From Our On-line Snapshot Backups 3 Manual backup techniques 4 Offsite backup techniques 5 What is not backed up 6 See also

[edit] Backups automatically kept on Dreamhost

Dreamhost automatically backs up files in your domain. This is described in the automated domain snapshots article.

[edit] Data Restoration From Our On-line Snapshot Backups

This article Snapshot data restoration gives a detailed explanation of how snapshots work and tutorials on how to restore your data.

[edit] Manual backup techniques

• for MySQL database: Backup MySQL, and Restore SQL backup
• also Migrate MySQL

[edit] Offsite backup techniques

• Rsync Backup
• Automatic Backup, a technique for having the system automatically generate and tarballs of the automated domain snapshots and recovering them to the your machine by FTP.

[edit] What is not backed up

(It would be good to describe what data is not backed up. See discussion page.)

[edit] See also

• Of course almost all the above rely on DreamHost having sufficient redundancy