(Free hosts) Do you back up your client's accounts?

**dmmcintyre3** · September 30th, 2010, 20:38

Do you back up your client's accounts? If so, how?

**jphilipson** · September 30th, 2010, 23:13

Yes, I do weekly - currently using cpanel uncompressed backups to a large backup drive on each machine.

**dmmcintyre3** · October 1st, 2010, 21:04

I back up to a friend's host, which he backs up to mine. bi-weekly cpanel ftp backup plus */8 hour mysql backup.

**eSupun** · October 2nd, 2010, 06:11

ExaBytes take my backups daily. And I am ready to host my backups on elsewhere too. (In my friends' server.

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**c0mhost** · October 4th, 2010, 10:57

Originally Posted by dmmcintyre3

Do you back up your client's accounts?

No, I don't do any backups (§3 of my Terms of Service). Every (free hosting) customer gets cPanel access and can do a back up on their own.

**Zombie** · October 4th, 2010, 18:03

I've always made it a priority to backup clients accounts to a remote server or two. Typically I backed up to 2 servers but that was me...

**dmmcintyre3** · October 4th, 2010, 19:54

Originally Posted by Rsmiley

I've always made it a priority to backup clients accounts to a remote server or two. Typically I backed up to 2 servers but that was me...

I keep backups of databases on 2 servers, files on 1.

**SiberForum** · October 5th, 2010, 02:12

I suppose that is something what client should take care of personally. Web hosting company (free one) is not supposed to take care of that.
Everyone who is using hosting should take care of that, moreover when he is on free web hosting account.

**TheRyanator** · October 7th, 2010, 20:20

YES!

Technically this is something that the client should take care of, but we ALWAYS backup EVERYTHING... Hourly, nightly, and 4 weekly backups using the .snapshot directory.

All the backups get copied to our local san array in the datacenter and after 1 month are backed up on tape drives for an additional 60 days.

**ExpertWebHost** · October 7th, 2010, 23:49

I agree with siberforum.

For most of the free hosts backup will be an additional burden on pocket and hence never worry of backup. But Ultimately, whether the host have the backup facility or not, the customer should always have his backup.