Website backup utility

[aidan6969]

I have a site running on Joomla 1.0 (Leadership Management,Development, Corporate Retreat,Business Organization:Training,Books,Articles*-*Jim Clemmer) and I'm just not confident that the backup utility is actually backing everything up.

Does anyone know of an auto backup utility that would back up my site (including db) and either FTP it to another host or download it to my local machine?

Thanks,
Aidan

[Clint1]

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but there's a bunch of free FTP programs out there and you can use any of them to backup your site anytime you want.

If your hosts use cPanel, there's also a Backup icon where you can also create backups anytime you want. A decent host should also have automated daily backups.

[aidan6969]

I moved to cloud hosting through Rackspace and they don't use a cPanel.

I'm totally paranoid because my last host, Siteocity, promised daily backups. But when their server crashed back in January I was left with nothing and had to start again from scratch. Just try explaining that to your boss!

I've got a couple of joomla backup utilities - but it's difficult to tell if they are working.

I can keep a local version of my site. But how do I download the dbs?

Thanks,
Aidan

[Clint1]

Sorry I'm not familiar with Joomla. I'm sure there's many around here that can give you some suggestions. But you still should be able to create backups with an FTP program which can download and copy everything.

What does Rackspace say about backing up everything?

[Clint1]

What keeps happening to the posts on this thread??? I've seen two email notifications, I come here, and both times....no post! Gremlins?

[deepsand]

Just more aggressive reporting and/or purging of junk posts.

[EAG]

I will be interested in such software, but need something to support database backup too in addition to site folders

[Atiga]

Your webhost should be able to do that. Ask them if you can backup your sites.