{"id":2093,"date":"2009-08-17T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T19:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/helpcentre\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:04:10","slug":"why-should-i-store-a-separate-copy-of-my-website-backups-offsite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/managing-website\/backups\/why-should-i-store-a-separate-copy-of-my-website-backups-offsite\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should keep a backup of your data off-site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recommend that you <\/span><b>keep a separate backup<\/b> <b>of your files and databases remotely<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (on your PC\u2019s hard drive or on a portable hard drive), as backups cannot be guaranteed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should a particular backup fail, it is not always possible to re-run the backup within the available backup window (i.e. backups can cause performance issues on servers if run during busy periods). This can result in the backup for a particular day not being available, with the only option to use an older backup for restore purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A further factor is that should a catastrophic failure occur on a backup server itself, all web\/mail servers that made use of that server for backups, will not have any backups until a new full backup is run to a new backup server. Due to the volumes of data involved, this process can take up to 24 hours. It will not be possible to offer customers a backup restore before this process is complete, leaving them with the option to revert to their own backup copies. Fortunately, the likelihood of such a failure occurring is extremely small.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"<span >We recommend that you <\/span><b>keep a separate backup<\/b> <b>of your files and databases remotely<\/b><span > (on your PC\u2019s hard drive or on a portable hard drive), as backups cannot be guaranteed.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >Should a particular backup fail, it is not always possible to re-run the backup within the available backup window (i.e. backups can cause performance issues on servers if run during busy periods). This can result in the backup for a particular day not being available, with the only option to use an older backup for restore purposes.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >A further factor is that should a catastrophic failure occur on a backup server itself, all web\/mail servers that made use of that server for backups, will not have any backups until a new full backup is run to a new backup server. Due to the volumes of data involved, this process can take up to 24 hours. It will not be possible to offer customers a backup restore before this process is complete, leaving them with the option to revert to their own backup copies. Fortunately, the likelihood of such a failure occurring is extremely small.<\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend that you keep a separate backup of your files and databases remotely, as backups cannot be guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[17901,17892,17895,17628,17297,16766],"topics":[10455],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backups","tag-backup-policy","tag-keep-a-backup-of-your-data-off-site","tag-store-backup","tag-restore-backup","tag-backups","tag-backup","topics-backups"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":177,"name":"Backups","slug":"backups","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":177,"taxonomy":"category","description":"The importance of Website Backups","parent":168,"count":8,"filter":"raw","term_order":"54","cat_ID":177,"category_count":8,"category_description":"The importance of Website Backups","cat_name":"Backups","category_nicename":"backups","category_parent":168}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":17901,"name":"backup policy","slug":"backup-policy","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17901,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2161"},{"term_id":17892,"name":"keep a backup of your data off-site","slug":"keep-a-backup-of-your-data-off-site","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17892,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2162"},{"term_id":17895,"name":"store backup","slug":"store-backup","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17895,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2163"},{"term_id":17628,"name":"restore backup","slug":"restore-backup","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17628,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2250"},{"term_id":17297,"name":"backups","slug":"backups","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17297,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2360"},{"term_id":16766,"name":"backup","slug":"backup","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16766,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":7,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2522"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"marketing","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/marketing\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a6ea315e112423b2b955cb020fbce2b0835956c6ad85ff0f13f1db298977eaaa?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}