{"id":16106,"date":"2026-02-09T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16106"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:20:28","slug":"blogathon-09-26-backing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16106","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 09\/26: Backing up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday evening I kicked off the weekly housekeeping back up processes. You know how it goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Log in to the cpanel of every website I look after<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Download copies of every MySQL database<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compress every website front-end into a zipped archive on the webserver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FTP the zipped archives direct to the NAS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compress every software application on my laptop to a zipped archive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FTP the software zipped archive to the NAS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compress every datafile on my laptop to a zipped archive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FTP the data zipped archive to the NAS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It doesn&#8217;t take that long. Our download speed is 1Gb\/s, so the database downloads are instant, and all the heavy-lifting of the front-end compression is done on the remote servers. But I was thinking last night that if I CBA I&#8217;d write some whizzy stuff to automate it all every Sunday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll just add that to my list of outstanding tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening I kicked off the weekly housekeeping back up processes. You know how it goes: It doesn&#8217;t take that long. Our download speed is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16107,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106\/revisions\/16107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}