Website backups
How to automate website backups.
Follow this very simple procedure to schedule your website backups. You will be glad you did.
Download and install the free software: NCFTP
Restart your PC (NCFTP writes a line to the windows path, so this works best upon restart)
Open notepad, and create a brand new document, paste in the following text and save it as backupwebsite.cmd
ncftpget -R -E -u your_ftp_username -p your_ftp_password your_web_ftp_address C:\website backup\ /
replace your_ftp_username with your FTP login name
replace your_ftp_password with your FTP password
replace your_web_ftp_address with the FTP address used for your website
You can change the C:\website backup\ to where ever you want to store your backups, just make sure the folder does exist.
The last “/” is where the backups will start from, if you FTP right into your web files, then you can leave just the forward slash, but some hosts you have to go into another folder to find your web files, like maybe /public_html or something similar.
Once you have this tested and running, then use the windows task scheduler to make it run when and how often you need.
Be sure and check on the backups every now and then to make sure everything keeps working…
Good advice, the solution is good to do a full FTP backup! But the backup with NCFTP is bandwidth consumer, does not include database, do only local copy, after the run of MCFTP you must copy the backup to have a backup of the day. There are tools like Website 2 Backup to do automated, encrypted and compressed website files and databases backup stored on emails, ftp or locally. You can use the email or ftp transfer to store backups in your hard drive.