By Keep Quiet on Tuesday, 30 September 2014
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Hi,

If I took backup at 12:00pm and the site went down at 6:00 pm. the easiest thing for me to do will be to restore the backup that will take the site back to the state at 12:00 pm.

Then what happens to all the pictures, posts, events, groups created and other activities users did between 12-6 pm? My guess is all will be lost.

How to restore the backup in a way that the activities are not lost? I am using Akeeba Backup but I am open to trying other solutions.

Thank you
What your asking for is a constant backup which I've never heard of a Joomla component doing such a thing. I suppose an ideal solution would be for a way to duplicate the data upon submission. One being stored in the usual tables, and the other going into backup table(s). How to accomplish this is beyond me.
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014 03:58
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Hi there,

here's my current setup (on other website)
1. In my hosting, I automatically backup database every 15 minutes uninterrupted (evault)
2. All my images are stored in amazon s3

Anytime the site goes berserk, I can easily restore the database for the last 15 minutes, no need for images since it's stored in other server and so are the static ones. Of course that's not cheap, but it's the safest way to go for me. Or you can get akeeba pro and set it up for a cron job every hour or so (uses lots of resources by the way including disk space).
Ken
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014 07:51
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If you are running a mission critical site, and have lots of money to spend on, go with a raid-0 backup. However, this will only solve your problems if you have a disk failure. Other than that, if your site is messed up, you'll still have issues as well. Like Ken mentioned, perform a backup at a shorter interval so that you get the latest data
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:44
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