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Use FTP to Backup Your Website
By Avery Nubson
Saving your website files on your hard drive may save you from a nasty headache
Your website files are important. They may provide your customers with important information about your company, store or track data in a database or provide useful service such as a mortgage calculator.
You should maintain your website as often as required in order to keep your site in the top notch slot in your customer’s mind. It is safe practice to create a backup folder on your hard drive to store your current website while you make any updates. If, for some reason, something breaks when updating the site you can always go back to your previous version.
You do not need to store a version for every update. In order to save space on your hard drive you can overwrite the previous backup files. It may be a good idea to back up your files on an external hard drive, USB Flash drive or CD. This way if your computer crashes you can still get your website files and perform updates.
The easiest and cheapest way to back up your website is with a utility program called File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP will allow you to have access to your web server. Some FTP applications are free for download and others are not. FTP applications require a host, directory, user name and password. Your host is usually your website address (www.ignus.com), the directory is the top level folder that FTP will “look” for your site files and the user name & password are given to you by your hosting company.
Other programs such as Adobe Dreamweaver also offer FTP access as well as a full website editor.
If your website is database driven, you’ll have to backup your website files and your database. Some websites even have an administrative area that also needed to be backed up.
You can still use FTP to backup the website files but the information in the database must be backed up with a database management utility.
For more information on backing up your website or database contact Ignus and we’ll help you out.