If you are having thoughts, doubts, concerns, etc. about backing up your website files, database (all data), there is really nothing to think about. The answer is a hell yes. On this past Wednesday morning, approximately at 1:00am EST, my server crashed. Luckily the data was still on the server. The issue was that the operating system wouldn’t start. After two days of work.. the data was migrated to a new server. Luckily, all of it was saved because I did not have any sort of backup what-so-ever.. for any of my 75+ sites!! Now I have learned my lesson and am going to backup the database at least 2-3 times per week and will backup my website files whenever any sort of change is made to them. This will make the restore process quicker and not having to rely on your web host to save everything in case of a server issue like I had.

I’m still going through sites and finding bugs and issues and having to fix them. Not everything is the same on this server from my last so its taking a little time to make sure everything is correct.

Just please take my advice and backup your sites at least on a weekly basis. Having something a week old is better than not having anything at all! If you can back it up daily, that’s even better. Who knows what will happen to your server / webhost.

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