Our site currently has NO backup system, which is a BAD state of affairs. lol
Can some kind soul help to put us on the path to a sensible and simple backup regime ?
I gather that JetBackup is good, but it costs, so we'd prefer to avoid it.
cPanel has Backup and Backup Wizard, which from a cursory glance both look pretty much the same. Is Wizard EASIER??
I see also that in either of them a FULL backup cannot later be restored via cPanel, so it seems that PARTIAL is the way to go.
There are 3 (or 4!) components of Partial - Home, MySQL, and Email. I guess it's possible to just backup 1 or 2 of these at different times, but for simplicity (even if it may take longer overall) I think we'd be better always to do all 3 at once.
I just tried the email one, which resulted in a 61-byte .gz file downloaded to my PC (I wasn't asked where I wanted it). I then began the same with Home Folder, but after 30minutes it's still only up to 760MB, so I suspect this isn't a practical method. Should I somehow be downloading these things from our server TO somewhere else on our server ?
Then anyway, looking ahead, once we have a method like this to run a backup I guess we should run it every 2 or 3 days so we'll always have a reasonably recent copy for Restore if need be?