Backup
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| The use of automated snaphsot directories is being discontinued. Procedures relying on the availability of these snapshot directories should be considered deprecated. While snapshot directories may be available on your server at the present time, as accounts are moved to new servers these directories will no longer be available This functionality is being replaced by our new "Domain Restore" feature that is already available for all accounts. If you are now relying on these automated snapshots, server changes may cause them to become unavailable to you at any time. |
This article is a portal to various strategies and tools for backup of data on your DreamHost sites.
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Backups automatically kept on Dreamhost
Dreamhost automatically backs up files in your domain. This is described in the automated domain snapshots article.
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.
Manual backup techniques
- One Click Account Backup. New as of July 2008. This feature lets you download a zipped backup of your entire account, including all users, mailboxes and databases. Note that it skips users and databases larger than 4 gigabytes.
One Click Account Backup
- 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
