Strategies for backups and security

If you're a seasoned developer or webmaster, you certainly have protocols in place for protecting your work, from daily backups to fail over servers. If you're a designer or site administrator, your back-ups are managed by your hosting provider or system administrator; you probably don't think much about back-ups on a daily basis.

However, with any complex configuration, a failure or mistake can still lead to hours and hours of lost time. Daily system backups are only good for what was done up to the time the backup was made. If you've worked with us in these first two chapters, you've already made a significant number of changes and configurations that, if you had to go back to yesterday's system backup, could ...

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