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Old 02-28-2007, 02:49 PM   #28 (permalink)
Gene Steinberg
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Originally Posted by explicitzone.com View Post
My old host recently went out of business ...and he told me about it ahead of time. He assured me that he would make full and complete backups of my sites so that I could move them to a new host. When I found my new host, I attempted to install the backups of my sites and tragically, the mysql databases were not included. I had to start over and I lost a lot of time and effort which I had put into them over a lengthy time span.
Your lesson here is that you should make sure you back up your files. Don't depend on any Web host to do it for you, regardless of what they promise.

At the end of the day, if they fail to do it properly, how do you get your files back otherwise?

Peace,
Gene
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