Backup
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This article is a portal to various strategies and tools for backup of data on your DreamHost sites.
Automatic Backups
Dreamhost automatically backs up files in your domain. See Domain Restore for details.
Manual Backup Techniques
- One Click Account Backup. New as of July 2008. This feature lets you download all the data in your account, including all users, mailboxes and databases, in a series of .zip archive files. Note that it skips users and databases larger than 4 gigabytes.
One Click Account Backup
- A python script is available that will automatically download the One Click Account Backup once it is ready.
- for MySQL database: Backup MySQL, and Restore SQL backup
- also Migrate MySQL
- for website files: Backup Website Manually
- for email Offsite email backup
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.
Personal Backups
see Personal Backup, a service provided by DreamHost for backing up your personal computer files to your DreamHost account.
What is not backed up
(It would be good to describe what data is not backed up. See discussion page.)
See also
- Of course almost all the above rely on DreamHost having sufficient redundancy
WordPress Backup
Various plugins exist including Duplicator, but this one was hand-rolled to work with the DreamHost backup user and offer a "download local copy now"!
