Hey there,

today my host went down for 12 hours and i realized the mistake i had been doing.... i have no backup of my data... ... so i need some help getting my data backed up...

so here is the scene... i have a hosting account with 2 domain hosted in it.. 1 is a web directory and another is a blog powered by wordpress... for he wordpress backup i have downloaded the sql data base and also copy pasted the posts in a word document for backups...

now how do i take a backup of my Web Directory.. i want a back up of all the links for which i think i will have to take a backup of sql data .. what what about my template data.. i mean my logo my images.. etc... and is there a need for taking a backup of all ftp files... ??

any help in this matter would be appreciated....

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depends on how Your webdirectory is constructed.
Often there is a separated directory for template/design which has to be downloaded.

Hi pratik, like Hendrik said, it kind of depends on your directory and the type of control panel your using, but in general if you are using cPanel for example go to your MySQL directory. usually /var/lib/mysql
zip everything up.
tar -zxcf /somewhere/name.tar *
If you're using H-Sphere it's even easier.
Now, don't just go by that. It's best to talk with your host. But you do have 2 things you need to do now, find yourself another host, have them transfer your files, and backup your data. It doesn't matter what host you choose, learn how to make backups of your data. Things happen with the best of us. Do you have shell access by any chance? Although, most hosts won't give you access to it. If so it'll make your backups much easier. Best of luck!

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