All web applications and web servers have security vulnerabilities and there is every change that our website will be compromized. Most web hosts have their own backup procedures in place, but it is not uncommon for a web host to become victim to an attack, and have problems with a small percentage of its customer backups. Because of this it is very important that we keep backups of our website.
Backing up is very important. We should back up regularly and ensure we take proper precautions with our backups.
The frequency with which a website needs backing up really depends on how often the website is updated. For a small website that is not updated very often, it should be done each week. The backups should be copied to a separate location, so that we always have two copies of a backup at any point of time. It is also recommended to archive a copy of each backup, so that if we break a section of our...