If you manage an Internet site, having a backup is something extremely important, particularly if you have important info or you have invested money and time in developing the website. There are numerous situations why you may need a backup - if you update a script and something goes wrong, if you eliminate a file or a whole folder unintentionally, and so on. Having regular backups will help you avoid any loss of information or at least minimize the damage, which is still better than losing the entire site. You'll be able to download a copy of your content on your laptop or computer from time to time, but since you cannot do that after every change, you'll have to rely on the backups your host company generates. Due to the fact that this is something rather vital, you have to make sure that they keep up-to-date backups, given that a backup performed once every one or two weeks may not do any good if you run an Internet site such as an online store or an accommodation reservation website.
Daily Data Back-up in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting provide regular content backups by default. This option will permit you to develop your websites without worrying if something can go wrong, because our system creates a new backup every few hours over a seven-day period, so a new backup does not overwrite a previous one. Restoring the content is super easy and usually takes just a few minutes - you may use a support ticket and mention the particular date of the backup which you want to be restored, or you can simply copy the backed-up files, because they shall be available in read-only folders in the File Manager section of your hosting CP. Each backup folder contains the exact time and date it was made in its name, so you could quickly locate and copy the content you need, even if you do not have any previous experience with such matters.