I'm curious what everyone else is doing for backups on their customers servers. So feel free to post the following:

Control Panel
Backup Type (Incremental, Full Backup ect.)
How Often
Where the backup is going
How long do you keep the backups (So if you do an incremental to you store all that in another backup, same with the full backups)

I backup the websites every night to an offsite space and to a second hard drive. Also do weekly and monthly. I backup everything.

I had bad experiences with the hard drive crashing and server being hacked.

Every week, on sundays. Goes to a NAS device on the same network, full backup. The next week, everything is ereased and starts all over.

Use a secondary server to backup, this can also act as a server if the current one goes down.

Off-site backups are recommended. If you're just backing up to a secondary hard drive in the server, then if something goes wrongwith the server or it's hacked, then you may not be able to recover the files from the backup drive.

Regards,

Rob.

RAID enabled servers + daily and weekly backups going offsite to BQinternet.com.

--Tina

1) RAID 1/10
2) Nightly rsync.
3) Daily DirectAdmin backups [full archive]
4) Weekly DirectAdmin backups [full archive]

RAID setup,
Offsite backups mainly to HDD Daily and Weekly.

Just to be safe, we burn all information to DVDs every so oftain.. Saving for a dual layer BluRay burner $:)$

When doing offsite backup, does it means using FTP or Cpanel to download Everything to your local PC?

During the backup process, does it slow down your server a lot?

Is there an automatic way of backuping from the server to local PC? I hate to do this every night...

The backup in cpanel is done via FTP automatically by configuring the cpbackup from WHM. It does slow down your server a bit because it has to compress all the files. But if you have a Fast server it wont slow it down too much.

I have a question.... If the Hacker gets password to your server and is able to view your files on the server, can't he find the username and password for your FTP information and login and delete those files as well?

Thanks

We currently have a backup automatically setup through WHM which sends nightly and weekly backups of our customers websites to our offsite backup server. We also have Raid enabled HDD's on our servers for that extra boost of security.

Yes definitly off-site backups, but if this isn't feasable, on-site is still better than nothing.

I have a question.... If the Hacker gets password to your server and is able to view your files on the server, can't he find the username and password for your FTP information and login and delete those files as well?

Just set the permissions so that the backup ftp user can only upload and not delete/view the files. Now if they were sneaky they could corrupt the files on your server and then wait for it to backup. Once the backups are curropted then go gong ho on your servers file system

Control Panel: Plesk & Virtuozzo
Backup Type: Full+Incrementals
How Often: Everyday
Where the backup is going: Network storage and Offsite storage
How long do you keep the backups: Week

I generally recommend doing a local backup that has a history, using something like rsnapshot ( http://www.rsnapshot.org/ ). Get a second drive and put it in your box; it's cheap. Then do an offsite backup that's only a mirror, using rsync or similar. Many of our clients do that, and it seems to work pretty well.... you've got a history (and a FAST LOCAL COPY) of your data for 99% of your possible problems. If your machine gets hacked, goes up in smoke, etc., you've got the latest data remote.

Daily CPanel incremental.
Weekly off network.

We use Mirrored Raid and Full Daily Backups that are stored onsite and offsite.

RAID
Local Backups - Daily, Weekly & Monthly
Remote Backups - Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Control Panel = CPanel's WHM
Backup Type = Home Directory Backups, Full MySQL backups
How Often = Daily, Weekly and Monthly
Where the backup is going = to 2nd harddrive for backup and to a local PC using website backup downloading software
How long do you keep the backups = On Server, schedule is managed by WHM; on local PC 1 month especially MySQL backups