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storagepipe · 04-08-2009, 03:36 PM

Aaaaah yes. Who hasn't wanted to do this at some point?

I would be very careful about this type of backup method. Most web hosts have clauses in their contracts specifically forbidding the use of your storage space for file backups.

If you have a web site that you care about, I would hate to see your account get deleted overnight over something so trivial. (To make matters worse, they would also be deactivating your primary backup device)

Some other potential downsides would be that a web server backup would not give you the ability to perform point-in-time recovery, and the uploads would take forever because you don't have block-level incrementals.

But who knows, maybe I'm wrong and this will work just fine. I wish you the best of luck. Let me know how it goes.

04-08-2009, 03:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
storagepipe Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 6	Re: Online Backup Scripts? Aaaaah yes. Who hasn't wanted to do this at some point? I would be very careful about this type of backup method. Most web hosts have clauses in their contracts specifically forbidding the use of your storage space for file backups. If you have a web site that you care about, I would hate to see your account get deleted overnight over something so trivial. (To make matters worse, they would also be deactivating your primary backup device) Some other potential downsides would be that a web server backup would not give you the ability to perform point-in-time recovery, and the uploads would take forever because you don't have block-level incrementals. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong and this will work just fine. I wish you the best of luck. Let me know how it goes.