I use rdiff-backup to take snapshots of my site. It does an incremental backup, so I take hourly snapshots to a remote server and keep 30 days worth. For ~1GB of data it uses 1.5GB for 30 days (my data doesn't change a huge amount).

I keep local copies of everything.
Then do offsite DVDs in case my house burns.

My web server ftps a mysql dump of all my databases to my home every night. This covers almost all of my data.

Originally Posted by ForgottenCreature

My dedicated server takes them every 2 days. Also another handy feature.

Can you share how do you do the automation?

I use rsnapshotDB (I wrote it, so I'm biased)

i probably dont back up often enough, but i am setup that my sites are backed up daily and even hourly (deletes the old after 3 hours) to another server, but i do local backups once a month.

I backup my websites only once a week or whenever I make major updates to my websites. I don't have any forum, so I don't have to worry about making regular backups.

everyday on the servers

locally, every few days to CD and also to another computer HD on the network using

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp

I try to get a backup in at least once a week, and I even bought a nice hard drive with an external enclosure to put them in.

Unfortunately, I often forget

are you using linux?

For those of you NOT doing regular backups, all I can say is rsync is your friend!

I used to have my servers at CIHost (quite possibly the worst hosting company in existence - 3 HD failures, numerous power outages, bandwidth outages etc).

My best uptime ever in the 2 years I was with them was 70 days. Anyway, they finally killed my HD for the fourth time and I had had enough - and needed to stay in business too.

I called The Planet (so far one of the best hosting companies ever) - got a server set up in a few hours and stayed awake for 24 hours transferring sites - thank goodness I can program otherwise it would have been 2 days or more.

The thing that saved my bacon was a daily Rsync, full backup of all sites and database to a server at my home, hanging off a DSL line.

These days I am paranoid. I do a hot backup via rsync to a secod drive in the server every four hours and do a full rsync every night to my home based server. I am also looking at setting up a third server for "round robin" serving and backup.

As I said, rsync is your friend

I am taking back ones in a week

Once a month mayb.

Sometimes i forget to take backups for months, which is really bad.It just takes so much time to backup and i take the risks to lose valuable things.I'm glad that nothing bad has ever happened.

I do daily full backups and FTP them to two different locations.

I keep 30 days of daily backups, then 12 month-end backups, then since-inception annual backups.

I make sql backups daily