How do I back up my site with LWS Drive?

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How do I back up my site with LWS Drive?

In order to back up your website online with LWS Drive, your web space must have SSH access. We recommend that you subscribe to a cPanel package with SSH access or a VPS server package.

Without SSH access, it will be impossible to connect your web space to your remote server. For this to work, you need to generate two RSA keys (one public and one private) so that the two spaces can communicate with each other.

1. Generate the keys (public and private) with the following command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048

2. Transfer the public key to the remote server using the following command:

ssh-copy-id -i /folder/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remote_server

• /folder/: is the location of your keys. The location will be indicated to you when the keys are generated.
• user: corresponds to the identifier created on your online backup space
• remote_server: corresponds to the IP address of your online backup space. You received the ip address by email when you subscribed to the service.

You will be asked for the password for your stick space so that you can move the public key to the LWS Drive online backup space.

3. The command used to make a backup of your site to your online backup space is:

rsync -rtlvz -e ssh --delete user@remote_server:/files/"/public_html/"

• User: corresponds to the user name of your remote server
• Remote_server: corresponds to the ip of your remote server
• /files/: this is the directory in which you want to make the backup on the remote server.
• /public_html/: This is the folder containing your website that you want to back up.

Conclusion

You can now back up your website with LWS Drive. It may be worth adding a cron job to automate the task and have regular backups of your website. You can create a backup script for this.

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