Backing up my website directly to a online backup service

[nexgen]

I researched a lot but found that all of the online backing up service work by downloading a software which backs up the local file to the online backup server.

What I actually need is the backup service to which I can directly backup the backup copy of my website. I don't want to first download the tared file to my computer and then upload again to a backup service.

Any suggestion?

[gammaRascal]

Any luck with any of these options?

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=websi...fp=JchEd6hFBSg

Most hosting providers will backup daily. Try contacting them to see if you can change some options.

[thegetpr]

contact your hosting for backup

[nexgen]

I contacted them and here is what i received:
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We do weekly backups of your account for you. You may perform backups from within your cpanel but this cannot be automated.
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Even though they do weekly backups I want to do that myself as well for safety. That will give me more control and confidence over my datas.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Originally Posted by nexgen

...You may perform backups from within your cpanel but this cannot be automated.
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Even though they do weekly backups I want to do that myself as well for safety. That will give me more control and confidence over my datas.

Wise choice!

In Cpanel there is a Backup Wizard on the home page of your control page.

This feature allows you to download a zipped copy of your entire site or parts of it onto your computer.

The following are backed up and included in a zip file for your convenience:

Home Directory
MySQL Databases
Email forwarders configuration
Email filters configuration

On completion, you can download the zipped file.

You have to remember to go into your File Manager and delete the zipped file from your hosting space when you are finished downloading the file.

If you have just web pages, no database, then you can FTP everything to your computer into a "backup" folder. This is good for if you make a mistake and mess up a page when editing. You can just copy the page from the backup folder to the "working on" folder and start over with your tinkering.

[Hades]

Is your hosting linux based? do you have console access to it?

If you have some basic linux knowledge you can write a shell script to do a backup and set it to run automatically with a cron.

1-The shell script would contain a command to create a zipped file with the content of your website. You can easily do it with the tar command.

2-The cron will schedule its running time, and you can modify it according to your needs. Your control panel should have tools to create cron tasks, but if not, you can still do it by editing your crontab file.

If you don't know linux, your hosting support should be able to do it in no more than half an hour of work, it might be worth asking them to do the job for you, even if they might bill you a couple more bucks at the end of the month.

Regards.

[daemon king]

I ll agree with shades and htmlbasictutor..