Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 11/13/76 11:55

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk writing
in news:kh4Cg.13395$lv.11214@fed1read12:

> Rather than relying on back-ups of a site, a far better policy is to
> maintain a development version of the site on your own machines and
> refresh the production site from the development site as and when
> required.
>
> Of course if the site makes changes in a database, then the database
> will need to be backed up separately.
>

I do this on a nightly basis for two small sites I maintain - I run a batch
file that FTPs them to my development machine (also a good way to keep my
development machine's data pretty much in sync.)

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