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This one is of the more manual kind and requires comand line knowledge and you needs to edit batch files to make it work.

Rsync is a Linux/Unix tool that transfers files from one computer to another.

Here’s an example of the use of RSYNC:

rsync -e ssh -av username@servername.domain.com:remote_directory local_directory

The steps to backup your files can be summarised like this

• Make a directory on your Linux-server to store your backups
• Create daily/weekly/monthly snapshots of your files. I havent researched how to do this yet. There’s lots of documentation of this process on the internet
• Find a way to make incremental backups, maybe RSYNC already does this
• Transfer the files to Dreamhost or another webhoster using RSYNC

Pros

• Can do whatevere you want
• Makes use of incredibly cheap storage
• Can be automated
• Uses encryption and can compress files

Cons

• Requires knowledge of Unix comands
• Dependant of the bandwith of the web hoster. Dreamhost is at times slow.

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