Originally Posted by Supernoob

Yeah most say they do, but on many occasions I've relied on my "hosts" backup and they never do.

My personal fave backup screwup was when a co i worked for was with a host that guaranteed backups. One of our primary shopping carts dies and after 2 or 3 days of futile effort we asked them to recover the site from backups. We'd lose orders but at least the cart would be back.

The answer? "Backups are overwritten every 24 hours". SO, by the time we decided to recover, the good cart was replaced with the bad.

I asked them on the phone WTF good is a backup that's only good for less than a day?? The tech acted like he didn't understand my reasoning. Needless to say we left the second our shite was moved

I have used my hosts backup's before, lucky they had them...

if not, I sure hope you or your developer kept copies

i backed up my sites just incase my indian web design team, hijacks me.

You should always back up your website especially if you're making a lot of money.

This is why I always backup my sites every day using XSitepro. It's only a 4mb hassle I have to deal with every day for 5 minutes so I don't have to experience such events.

I know some people even pay for some services for backups too.
They are really serious about backing the f up.

If anyone could teach me how to schedule backups on HostGator and automatically send them to Amazon S3?