I was required to backup a company website, this backup had to be able to be stood up on a plain jane webserver. So after a bit of googling I came up with this. The tarball can be unpacked into the docroot standing the site up as it was the date it was backed up. Not entirely pretty but done this wa...

Western Digital 640 HD My Book Home Edition (USB/eSATA/Firewire 400) for backups $145 from JB Hifi – Dunno if it’s just me but SLOW SLOW SLOW, which in the grand scheme of things speed really isn’t that important as I bought it for data backup. I haven’t tried the eSATA, but the Firewire didn’t rea...