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Backup storage and recovery guides
Backup guides covering website and server backups, off-site storage, retention, restore testing, database strategy, capacity planning, full vs incremental copies, and SFTP.
Backups
Understand the system, not just the setting.
A backup is useful only when it preserves a recoverable copy of something you care about. These guides focus on sizing, separation, restore planning, transfer methods, retention, and the failure modes that a second copy is supposed to protect against.
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Website backup service: what to ask before trusting it
Compare a website backup service by what it protects, backup frequency, off-site separation, retention, encryption, restore process, monitoring, and export access.
BackupsServer backup Canada: how to plan an off-server copy
Plan server backups in Canada around recovery goals, application-consistent data, encryption, off-server storage, retention, bandwidth, access controls, and restore testing.
BackupsOffsite backup storage: why separation matters
Offsite backup storage keeps recovery copies away from the live system. Learn which failures separation protects against and why redundancy, snapshots, sync, and backup are not interchangeable.
BackupsBackup retention policy: how many restore points do you need?
Design backup retention around recovery windows, data change rate, unnoticed corruption, legal or business requirements, storage growth, and the time needed to detect incidents.
BackupsBackup restore testing: how to prove a copy is usable
Backup restore testing verifies that archives can be retrieved, decrypted, imported, started, and used. Build restore drills around real recovery objectives rather than a green backup-job status.
BackupsDatabase backup strategy: how to protect changing data
A database backup strategy should address consistency, recovery points, transaction volume, dumps vs physical copies, encryption, off-site storage, retention, and restore verification.
BackupsBackup storage is not the same as file sync
What another copy should protect you from: deletion, ransomware, and hardware failure.
BackupsHow much backup storage do you actually need?
Estimate backup capacity from live data, retention, change rate, and compression.
BackupsFull vs incremental backups: what is the difference?
Compare full and incremental backups, including storage use, backup windows, restore chains, retention, verification, and why the right strategy depends on recovery goals.
BackupsWhat is SFTP, and when should you use it?
Learn what SFTP is, how it differs from FTP and FTPS, how SSH keys fit in, and why restricted SFTP is useful for website and backup transfers.
WordPressWordPress hosting checklist: what to verify before launch
A pre-launch WordPress checklist covering HTTPS, backups, updates, email delivery, DNS, security, performance, and recovery.
SecurityVPS security checklist for a new Linux server
A practical Linux VPS hardening checklist covering access, updates, firewall rules, service exposure, backups, logs, TLS, secrets, and monitoring.
WordPressWordPress backup restore: what has to come back?
A complete WordPress restore may require files, uploads, plugins, themes, configuration, and the database. Learn how to verify that a backup can rebuild the site.