Last month I had a bad experience with a VPS provider. My VPS went down for three days after the host node hosting about 30 VPS’s suffered multiple disk failures. It would have not been an awful experience if I had full and incremental backups being copied to another server location. It was a painful lesson indeed. My question is regarding full backups.
I now have a scheduled full backup being SCP to another server at a different data center at the 1st of the month. I then have an incremental backup scheduled to start every midnight excluding the 1st day of the month which also uses SCP to transfer the backup files to the same data center where the full backup was sent. The server receiving the backup files have two folders one for full backup and another folder containing incremental backups. Is a month too long to use for full backups? I am not using the option “Do strftime-style”
Good to know my backup plan is almost the same as everyone else! It would also be nice to have another option for the backup destination to use most of the popular cloud storage like amazon.
Once per week I do a full backup, and daily incrementals.
And I keep even multiple previous months of backups. 1-2 per month (only the fulls, no incrementals). That exactly for the reason Eric mentioned: It happens from time to time that a customer requests getting an old file or database entry restored, when they noticed by chance that something got broken a while back.
Actually I do have a license for Virtualmin Pro I just need to upgrade it to allow me host more virtual domains. I also have a license for Cloudmin. I do agree you get even quicker response times for being a paid customer. Joe, Jamie and anyone else involved do an outstanding job putting out an excellent product!