What's the best way to back up your website?

I've just been tarring up the directory and downloading it to my home PC. Then I back up the database through

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 MyAdmin Export and save that to my home PC as well.

Is there a better way that I'm missing?

I use "mysqldump -A" to copy the database then "tar czvf backup.tgz /var/www/html/*" or whatever so pretty much the same.

Cheers,
td

I cron the tar.gz ing of my sites, but I have a master/slave relationship between my production database and a backup

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 hine offsite. A cron job halts the slave, then backs IT up, then restarts the slave - so my production database is never offline and my backup is copisetic. Because of this arrangement I also have a backup that is always right up to date.

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get a server that has free backup space

1and1

but yea, the way your doing it works. if its too slow, and you have multiple servers, you can backup 1 server to another, and vice versa. the likelyhood of 2 servers blowing up at the same time is close to 0.

Sorry to hear that, hope you get better soon   

Cheers,
td