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RE: How to back up sites & projects

patgeary — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:07:40 GMT

Besides regular backing up my hard drive to an external hard drive, I just right click the My Web Sites folder and send the whole thing to an external hard drive. Or even send a copy of the web site to the desktop.

Good article by Susan Emerson [url=http://www.basiccomputerinformation.ca/computer-back-up/][/url]

RE: How to back up sites & projects

Homey — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:29:03 GMT

This Back up deal is scary, I used to have FP2000 and used it to edit our clubs web site, now that I am no longer with that club, I did volunteer to take over another web site of a club we belong to, before I even begin to work on it I have to make some decisions, the fellow that is hosting the site, is rather rude and arrogant, and I personally do not like the guy (never met him) I realize that he will have it backed up on his end, and all I wanted to do was make sure I got it backed up here on my end and then burn a copy for my self and turn one over to the President of the club should something happen to me, guess I am just trying to play it safe.

I have talked to a provider where we live now (we live 400 miles away) about hosting the site and he was most helpful and even said he would lend a hand should I get stuck or something, which makes me feel a lot more comfortable, as EW is totally new to me, site was done in FP2003 and no one had the software, so I opted for EW to upgrade mine. I do have a back up program called "Iomega QuilSync and is a rather handy thing, it backs up certain files to and external HD.

I would thing it would be a good practice to back up a site and to burn to CD in case you ever needed to restore in the event something gets screwed up, but I don't want to make any changes to the site till I can clear up this "Whose my Server" problem. I will work through these problems and I can see in time as I learn EW that I may just rebuild the whole site in time, from what I understand it is far easier to use CSS than work in Frames?

Hope I didn't get to boreing here, but the Back up is something that was on my mind as well.

RE: How to back up sites & projects

Dustin — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:16:16 GMT

I haven't seen anything in EW especially created for backups, though that would be a very good feature request.

I personally tend to archive sites when I'm about to make what I view to be large changes. And I basically just make a zip of the current version, and start working on a copy of that folder. So for example with the LearnExpression site, the files I currently modify are considered the V3 of this site, and soon we'll be seeing a V4. I thusly have backups of each of these "versions".

RE: How to back up sites & projects

RJ — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:10:27 GMT

I don't know about best practices but what I do seems to work for me is do back ups on my firewire drive. I have a folder named DISTRIB_ClientName on both my working folder and on the firewire backup. At the end of the day I do a File Sync to make sure everything is syncronized and uptodate.

Makes me sleep nights and stay calm;)

The program I use is Good Sync (free version) just do a google search.

Cheers

How to back up sites & projects

tim_ellis — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:18:55 GMT

Just wondered about some suggestions for 'best practice' for how to back up an EW site or indeed parts thereof.... Before you ask: I DID check out the EW help and couldn't see anything....... Surely something so important should be 'in your face', as we say in the UK.

I found this concept particularly important when doing modifications to e.g. a project being changed on the fly.... I can't tell you how many times things were changed without me having a clear idea why... and potentially messing things up in a big way e.g. master.lwt, or styles etc. So best to back it up before any modifications seems to be a sensible approach....

It might also of great value (a) as a learning tool - watching how the site has evolved ("Heck, did it really look like that !! What was I thinking !!?) and (b) for audit-like recovery of potentially missing files or code that might have been lost in incremental changes.

(Yes, I know that once it is published the ISP/Host has a copy on line, but it seemed to me it made sense to have something off site and safely 'put away'.)

A little bit of research showed the File/Export/Personal Web Package - I wondered if that might be one way of going ahead ?

Up to now, I have used good old winzip which I guess does the trick.

I may be in a minority here, but I'd like to suggest a quick video on why its important and suggestions as to how to carry out a EW site backup.

Again, many thanks in advance,

Tim