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Message: <blockquote data-quote="python_dev" data-source="post: 228062" data-attributes="member: 5980">Ok, We'll cover over a few things from a profesional view...1.) All Servers Should back up regularly, but not all really do, or know how to set-up the server to do it automatically.2.)As far as data is concerned, being put all over the place seems a little silly to me, depends on the type of backup they did (could mean they backed up entire server and don't want to give all the server info.3.)Also this depends on the type of backup that was done by the server, different control panels format thier backup in different ways and are not always compatable with new servers, most can be manually unzipped and rezipped etc, depends on how much effort the admin is willing to go to.. in this case I think it is not alot.I have been managing servers and my own hosting company for 10 years and have seen alot that would surprise people.. E.G one of the largest hosting companies in Netherlands was started by a 17 year old guy who formatted his system 3 times in 3 days accidentally ( I know I had to repair it each time).Server Back up procedures should be:1.) local Backup2.) Remote backup of files to another server.3.) Hard backup to CDThis will ensure that you always have "A" copy of data for all sites.Also note if I was the group at this time I would have made 2 people responsible for keeping a local copy of the website on thier computers. not 1, so in this case I would not just put blame on 1 person out of the group, better managment practice needed by all...No Single points of failure, I practice this with my sites as well, local copies on 2 machines in 2 countries so if a personal computer fails I still have another copy.</blockquote>

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