How often do you backup?

[Commerce Brian]

Here's one for all webmasters - how often do you backup your site?

[sammy]

I know this is an old topic, but it is always relevant.
It is not letting me vote though for some reason.

Anyway, I am bad with backing up.. everyday I say I will do it but I dont.

I would guess I do it twice a year 

[Commerce Brian]

Hi sammy and welcome to TCF.

As for backing up - definitely advised with websites and customer data on a regular basis.

Also - check the backups work, too - I was backing up a database for an ecommerce client, when I realised - about about 4 months - that the backups had for some reason had failed to backup any actual customer order information.

Luckily once I realised I went straight for a full backup and did so twice.

[taiarain]

Each time I make changes.

I don't sell through the site, per se, so I don't have customer data stored on that needs to be backed up.

All of my updates are done offline before being uploaded so I effectively back up before I go up.

Taia