Backup Pricing

[Denver Dave]

I'm confused about the pricing for having backups made.
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"Example 1: if you have the Dathorn Basic Plan (2GB Disk Space) and you want only daily backups $2X2GB=4$X1(only daily backups)=$4 Total a month

Example 2: if you have the Dathorn Basic Plan (2GB Disk Space) and you want Weekly and Monthly backups: $2X2GB=4$X2(weekly and monthly)= 8$ a month."
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Example 1 would seem to involve 30 daily backups each kept for one day and cost a total of $4 for the month.

Example 2 wold seem to involve a total of 5 backups (4 weekly and 1 monthly) and cost $8 for the month. Why higher cost for less actual backups?

Anyway, in my situation, what I probably need is 1 monthly backup that is kept for 3 months (standard copy, parent, grandfather backup strategy) Is this available and for how much. Are partial backups available? What if we only need one file or one client account restored?

Or am I looking at this the wrong way? What are other's backup strategies involving client accounts?

Thanks. Dave

[Jonathan]

I think (don't quote me here) that Dathorn will restore
any account; as for single files, you get FTP access.

Also a note is that the backups are kept until the next set of backups!
I.e., daily backups are deleted the following night when they do that day's backups.

Alternatively, I know some here who have their own server setup @ home
thats on 24/7 and have setup a Cron job with a PHP script to FTP all the
files + MySQL stuff over to their home server. Not sure how they set that up though.

[ChrisTech]

Alternatively, I know some here who have their own server setup @ home
thats on 24/7 and have setup a Cron job with a PHP script to FTP all the
files + MySQL stuff over to their home server. Not sure how they set that up though.

That's what I need to get setup for my accounts. So whomever has it setup, speak up, enquiring minds wanna know.

[james]

Hi there,

It was me that Jonathan is talking about.

I do not actually FTP all the files home - only the mysql databases that are important. It'd use up too much bandwidth transferring all files too.

Most of my sites are simple database driven ones, where the actual files do not change, only the database. It is for this reason I only send the databases home.

I can try and dig out the code to the script I use if you like.

[AndrewT]

Backup pricing is based on disk space on the plan, which is the same regardless of which frequency you choose. Bandwidth is free as it's all done via LAN.

[Denver Dave]

I have experimented with FTP to tranfer files from one internet server to another for backup purposes. I had an example working to "push" a directory and all files beneath it to another server.

Seems like it would be better to "Pull" the files since then I could logon to one centralized backup location and not have to distributed the scripts to all the source servers. In theory this should work, but I do not have a working example using "Pull".

Dave