anyone?!?

either way, most decent hosts will back up your sites hands off every 12 hours or so. You can tie in to events if you want for updates, or just run cron jobs to offload backups to a few "cloud" providers if you want.

My hosting makes nightly backups of my entire vps dbs and all, has nothing to do with concrete5.

This is a great ad on idea! Maybe there could be a adon where you simply press a button "backup" and it zip's up and download's all of the sites files and Database? This way we don't have to rely on the hosting to do it.

If I can't rely on the hosting company, I would change it immediately...

I'd like to see a backup/restore funcationalty to clone a site but why do you want to manage the backups on your own?

I know that a lot of people are asking for this, but I still don't get it :)

http://www.concrete5.org/index.php?cID=2668

Really? I thought Pair Networks was a pretty decent host, but I just called them and they don't do automatic backups they said. I'm sure they do on some level because when they have server issues, they fix it and move sites over, etc. But as far as restoring a site the client destroyed, they said they don't do that. Is that weird? They're not all that cheap... Not Godaddy cheap, at least. Actually, a couple hundred a year for sites that get almost no traffic, which seems kind of expensive to me.