The backup policy I use for my sites:
1) If it is a static site, I just take the backup of the latest site and delete the old ones.
2) If it is a dynamic site which uses MySQL Database, then I take backups once a week and usually I keep 3 backups of the site so I can revert the site backup to the date I want, depending upon the data.
The three backups I keep for my sites are in the following manner, I take the backup and overwrite the oldest backup, Ie: when I take the 4th backup I overwrite the 1st backup, which helps me to save and re-use the diskspace on my account.
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Originally Posted by DavidJ
So back to my question, how often do we need to make backup? Is once a month a good interval?
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Hi DavidJ,
Usually it is advised to keep the latest backup, but many of a times it is not possible to take
e backups so I would recommend you to take backups as I take them or atleast twice a month considering your site is a dynamic, So in case if you lose your data, you wont have to restore a backup which is a month older.
Rest it depends upon your requirements. ;)