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It depends on many factors... the amount of backup space you have available, the amount of client data, the method you're using for backups, and mostly, the fees clients are paying for service
Thanks...
I keep 31 days daily backups (full not incremental) and then the last day of each month for a year, uploaded to one server and replicated to another for redundancy.
yes, for normal shared hosting i go by the daily, weekly, monthly of cPanel on secondary hdd and one copy to other server.
for few importants i keep rotational daily backups of seven days..
for more importants i additionally dump the mysql data 4-5 times a day..
@above thanks for your input!
My dedi has partial backups(only important vm data) to a backup VPS, and i also do real offsite backups every 2 weeks(i download all the data, worth 238GB currently to my special backup HDD and store the HDD in my closet
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The other question is - how many backup locations do you have? ;-)
I backup any data on my VPSes daily via rsync, but that gets thrown on a RAID 6 and then external drive. Which reminds me, I need to do my monthly backups, tyvm.
If you have the backup space do it daily for the month, but to be honest 7 days plus a weekly and a monthly should be more than sufficient for anyone. As long as you tell them that is what you offer.
Better question is how many SPFs do you have in accessing all those locations? More often than not, the important access keys are stored on that one laptop ;-)