Website Backup Copies

[Kurieuo]

Just a suggestion... One of my clients needed a backup restored recently, but the last weekly and monthly copies were made on the 17th (which overwrites the previous weekly and monthly copies). This means the earliest backup copy was the 17th, but they required an earlier copy.

Is it possible to have the last two weekly backup copies kept, instead of just the last weekly copy? This avoids having the last monthly and weekly copy fall due on the same day.

Although these copies shouldn't be depended upon by users, the sad fact is many people still haven't learnt to backup their stuff first. And when they request a backup copy, it seems they expect there to be a backup copy available for each day.

However, I don't see it as unreasonable to keep the last two weekly backup copies. Is this possible?

[Sardtok]

Actually you could make a cron job that would copy such backups before they get deleted and new ones are made...
I simply don't have time right now, but it has been discussed before and you should be able to find a solution to it on one of these boards...

[James99]

You could use this (http://worldcommunity.com/opensource/utilities/mysql_backup.html). I use it on a server of mine, and it works great.

[Kurieuo]

Thanks. I guess this would be the ideal solution for my own sites, or those I host who would like their sites to be backed up more. Just places the burden on the user end (which I think is right), but I think it would still be nice to also have a copy of the second last week.