When I proselytize for backups
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What would you do if your hosting company somehow lost your data? With my own sites, I use a three-tiered backup process, 1 the host, 2 a thrid party (another host) and 3 my own hard drive. I have not had a significant data loss on any of the sites I use this on. Recently I did have a problem on one site, and the host’s backup failed (it was hosted on a Servint VPS), but thanks to having backups in other places, I only lost a few hours of data (rolling back to the most recent uncorrupted backup. Do it, and do it religiously.
Peter Davis is a web developer, investor, author, entrepreneur, and most importantly a father. 
Yeah. It can be hard for those on dial-up connections, but after I got cable, I got setup. For my databases, there is the live copy, the host’s backup, my backup on the host (the one that is along with my own files they host), the backup on my hard drive and the back up on my external hard drive.
For regular files, there is the live copy, the host’s backup, the backup on my hard drive and the backup on my external hard drive.
Fingers crossed.