Backup Overview
The
Backup area allows you to download the daily, weekly, or
monthly backup file of your entire web site, or a particular
MySQL, alias, or filter backup file. If the server
crashes these files
allow you to recover your site in a convenient manner (you
could also use FTP to download each file, but it would take
much longer as the files are not compressed).
Important: You should keep your own backup
copy of your web site. Do not rely solely on the
backup provided by Three Spires. Having multiple backups
in different locations provides security against permanently
losing information.
Note: A complete web site backup file
includes everything - from web pages to images to scripts
to access logs. A large site will have a large backup file,
and will take some time to download.
To download a backup file:
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Click on the Backup button on the home
page.
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Click on the Daily, Weekly,
or Monthly backup file to download the
entire system backup for the indicated time, or click
on the link underneath the required area to download
an SQL, Alias, or Filter backup file. Refer to Generating
a backup if you need to generate a backup first before
downloading it.
Note: To download any previous stored
backups, click on the Generate/Download a Full
Backup link, and click on any backup that is
listed.
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Save the file to disk.
Note for Windows users: This file is
in .tar.gz format (a GZIP archive file that contains
a TAR archive file). This is a common archive format
used on Unix machines, in the same way that .zip is a
common Windows archive format. Most compression utilities
should be able to uncompress a .tar.gz file.
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