: Backing up VPS and Database Servers for website I currently have an "un-managed" (no help from hosting company) windows vps server. I am working on a good backup solution to return my site

@Cofer257

If I were you , I would just install Plesk panel on the windows VPS server and then just configure the backups in the Plesk panel. You can create and download backups via the panel , as well as restoring them anytime.

All your need to do is the enter the Backup section and configure the time and the day when the backups are going to be created and uploaded to your server. You can even copy the backups automatically to your local server.

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@Turnbaugh106

Repos are inefficient for large chunks of data. Make sure your website and/or any custom software is backed up to a repo, and store your large chunks in Amazon S3. The easiest thing then is to simply replicate your stack (Operating System, Server, other software) in a cloud image (I'm partial to Amazon). When your main server goes down, you boot the image, clone your software to it from repos, and serve your large chunks of data from S3. It's a bit pricy compared to traditional hosting, but it has excellent availability and you only incur a cost if you are actively using it.

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@Dunderdale272

For backup my idea would be to store your site somewhere on a repository system. You could use github or bitbucket (free private repos). Then I would just create a simple script in the programming language of your choice to dump the database to Amazon's S3. That way you can just reinstall the script and load in the SQL file.

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