backup data

[chrismoore]

Hi, I know we all go to great lengths to backup our photos (I have several redundant hard drives), but I was just thinking how I've spent a great deal of time customizing my Smug site over the last few months, with multiple html-only pages and endless pages of CSS. I was thinking of what recourse I would have if all this code were to somehow vanish one day, maybe by a server crashing, virus, etc. I was thinking of going through my galleries one by one and copying the code to a text file, but that would take a lot of time. I was wondering if there was any simple solution to backup the customization codes, including CSS, java, and gallery descriptions, or maybe this is not even necessary if SmugMug backs up the data on multiple servers and tells me that would never be an issue. Any thoughts?

[denisegoldberg]

I keep backup copies of all of the css, javascript, etc. from my customizations. I also keep backups of the html in html-only galleries.

I keep the backups as text files on my computer, and those files are also backed up to Amazon S3. My photos are also backed up to S3.

Smug uses S3, so your files are in multiple places. But I could argue that's not good enough for your customizations. What if you made a change to your customizations and broke something? The only way back would be to revert to an older version of your code.

--- Denise