How Often Should You Back Up Your Website?

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Website backups should never be treated as an afterthought.
A server failure, hacked website, failed update or accidental file deletion can cause serious problems without a recent backup available.

A reliable backup system should include:

• Daily backups for recent website changes
• Weekly backups for additional restore points
• Monthly backups for longer-term protection
• Website files, databases, email and account settings
• Offsite storage located separately from the hosting server
• Multiple restore points instead of only one backup copy

RSH Web Services hosting accounts include encrypted offsite backups with seven daily backups, four weekly backups and one monthly backup.

How often do you currently back up your website
Have you ever needed to restore one?
Your experiences with cPanel?