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Okay, let's put our heads together, there are a lot of people out there with no shell access, with no control panel and only a CLI, and there are people on shared hosting and all the way up to dedicated servers.
How do we recommend the various people to make back ups on a frequent basis?
If possible, get a VPS or Dedicated solution, so you can SSH in, and use PHP or Bash from the CLI, and guarantee a complete and full backup. And make a crontab to run it daily, and another crontab 2 hours later to copy a backup to a remote offsite location.
Since I run multiple databases on my server, I tend to use a script that dumps all the databases; http://thegeekdistrict.com/topic/1522-all-mysql-database-backup-shell-script/
However, this doesn't cover the /home/* directories.
How do we recommend the various people to make back ups on a frequent basis?
If possible, get a VPS or Dedicated solution, so you can SSH in, and use PHP or Bash from the CLI, and guarantee a complete and full backup. And make a crontab to run it daily, and another crontab 2 hours later to copy a backup to a remote offsite location.
Since I run multiple databases on my server, I tend to use a script that dumps all the databases; http://thegeekdistrict.com/topic/1522-all-mysql-database-backup-shell-script/
However, this doesn't cover the /home/* directories.