[FX.php List] [OFF] Automated FTP Client for backup?

[Bob Patin]

I know this doesn't address your question, but I would be extremely  
uncomfortable about not having a pristine set of my clients' sites for  
emergencies...

Countless times I've had clients over-write code that I had done for  
them, but in my case, since I use Dreamweaver, I have a full set of  
the site docs on my computer here, and upload a page each time I  
finish editing it. Granted, it's tedious to have to upload each time I  
update a page, but there are a lot of benefits: a) my computer is  
backed up with Time Machine every hour, so I have tons of backups of  
sites that I've worked on; b) I never lose any of my work due to  
having been "stepped on" by the client's error (or my own); c) I can  
revert to the server copy if one of my tests doesn't pan out.

For example, tonight I duplicated my home page in my website, added a  
feed to show my 3 latest blog entries on my home page; not wanting to  
destroy my wonderful work from before, I tested the duplicate page  
first, and then renamed it "index" when I was satisfied that I had  
what I wanted. I suppose you can do the same by duplicating a page on  
the server itself, but I really like having a local copy of every site.

When I finish a project, I ZIP the site with a datestamp so that I  
know when it was archived...

I know many of you don't really like Dreamweaver, but it makes my  
method so easy to maintain, plus I like all the features it gives me.


Bob Patin



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On Mar 16, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> My client's web site is hosted at a commercial web hosting joint.  
> There is another person with FTP access to the web files and they  
> recently managed to overwrite one of my php files. Since I do my  
> work directly on the server using BBEdit, I had no backup for the  
> file.
>
> So now I'm looking for a good backup solution (from server to local)  
> for a server that I don't run. Sure, I could do it manually, but I'm  
> interested in an automated solution.
>
> Is automated FTP a good way to go? Any other good solutions?

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