With a site like this one any data loss is VERY bad, so I've done quite a bit
of work on automating my backup systems. The first step is of course created a
rolling backup system on the server itself. I wrote "MySQL
DB backup - Automated shell script" to cover that side of things. The next
step is often overlooked. An off server backup is also just as important as
the backup on the server itself. What happens if the hard drive straight up
dies? Those backup files on the server won't help you at ALL!This next step
is to help show you what I've done to have my windows system automatically
grab one of those backup files from the server to have what is known as an
"offsite backup" Alot of other peoples instructions are to put FTP commands
into that shell script which is run on your server, but how many of us have
multiple dedicated servers? Not me! (yet) My solution to this problem is to
take advantage of the FTP commands built into windows!
Step 1: DB Dumps
I just got done writing a guide to automated DB dumps
here. You'll want to use
that if you don't already have a system setup to automate your DB dumps. You'll
also want to make sure that they're stored in a directory that you can FTP into.
Otherwise you won't be able to follow this guide :(
Step 2: Create files:
backup.bat
ftp.cmd
