Darren Mothersele

Very exciting today as my new eee 901 has arrived. Suzy's had the Windows version for a week now, but I wanted to hold out for the Linux version. Not just for the extra few gigs storage space - but so I can run my favourite KDE desktop.

Here's a nice easy way of running backups for your Drupal sites. To successfully backup a Drupal website you need to:

1. backup all the files, themes, modules, etc, and,
2. backup the database content

I'll not go into the reasons why backups are essential part of support for Drupal, or any websites, because if you've ever had a server crash and die on you then you will understand. If you haven't then I suggest it's only a matter of time, and you start a rigorous backup routine now.

Read on for one backup method that produces nice incremental backups of your Drupal site without taking up too much diskspace, and dumps SQL content of your Drupal database at the same time.