I'm wondering what people running small online business from home do about data backups.
Aside from whatever backups your hosting provider might make, you're obviously going to want to have your own system in place.
You don't want to store backup data on an external drive or laptop, since if it's nicked you've just released contact details for all your customers.
On the basis of an in-depth 2 minutes thinking about it, simplest way I can think of would be to set up a cron job to dump your db, encrypt it, and mail it to a gmail account set up specifically for that purpose, which you never use for anything else apart from logging in occasionally to clear down old backups, or if you need to restore.
I'm probably missing a better way, any suggestions?
Aside from whatever backups your hosting provider might make, you're obviously going to want to have your own system in place.
You don't want to store backup data on an external drive or laptop, since if it's nicked you've just released contact details for all your customers.
On the basis of an in-depth 2 minutes thinking about it, simplest way I can think of would be to set up a cron job to dump your db, encrypt it, and mail it to a gmail account set up specifically for that purpose, which you never use for anything else apart from logging in occasionally to clear down old backups, or if you need to restore.
I'm probably missing a better way, any suggestions?