SuperCharlie Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) Ok.. so I have a 1.4.8.2 site that has been going for a while..around..oh.. 6-8 months or so.. I like to get a full backup every couple weeks..sometimes I let it go for around a month or when I want to make some code updates yada I usually want a complete backup. At first I went to my hosting cpanel and just zipped up the files, downloaded that and an sql dump.. tada backup. After a few months the cpanel zip process got so long I got scared it would freak out my host on processor usage and flag my account.. so.. I started making multi-zips.. Today I went to multi zip and just the img folder zip took forever.. so now I am downloading the whole site via ftp and it appears to be in the 1.5G range with somewhere around 20,000+ files. Just..wow. FWIW... the site sells a lot of multi-option knick-knacks and clothing with multiple sizes, options, and colors..so yes.. there are a lot of images.. probably only on the order of 500 or less products tho.. Anyone else find their backups are crushing through the crust of the earth with their sheer weight in bytes? Edited January 14, 2013 by SuperCharlie (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Dalton Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) SC, I get what you are saying, but it is what it is. You can maintain a copy on your hard drive and use a file sync program to only copy changed or new files from your server. Remember to exclude your cache directory's. Edited January 14, 2013 by Bill Dalton (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCharlie Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 Hay.. ya got any recommendations on good sync programs? I had thought of the incremental thing but I would have to start off with a clean copy anyways.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Check the root of your site and make sure that your errorlog is not a lot of that size. I had a 600mb once because of an error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Dalton Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 I don't need FTP anymore. But when I was using this method I used my FTP program. It had the feature build in. This free FTP program claims to do it. http://www.ftpvoyager.com/ Or this dedicated program, the free version has all you need, http://www.ftpsynch.com/ Or a Google search on file sync program ftp will give you a lot to look at. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCharlie Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 Check the root of your site and make sure that your errorlog is not a lot of that size. I had a 600mb once because of an error. Ya I thought of that..I had a runaway loop one time that consumed the universe in error log..lol.. It appears to be the pics I think.. I saw a lot of large originals..in the 64M range which should have been compressed.. and it appears PS just really likes to make a jillion pictures.. and I am too scared of breaking the site to go in and try to remove some of them or re-do the pics in the backend.. I think some kind of incremental backup is what I will try next.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCharlie Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 I don't need FTP anymore. But when I was using this method I used my FTP program. It had the feature build in. This free FTP program claims to do it. http://www.ftpvoyager.com/ Or this dedicated program, the free version has all you need, http://www.ftpsynch.com/ Or a Google search on file sync program ftp will give you a lot to look at. Kewl deal.. I will also see if my filezilla will do this as well.. I know it will skip files bt not sure if it will exclude on older deal.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 One thing you can do is turn off the generation of the picture sizes that you do not need. Just see what your template uses and delete the sizes it does not use. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCharlie Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 @DH I think that is the key.. to only have and use the images you need and to make sure to only have images the template needs. Its just kinda surprising to see the site get so big..but I guess when ya make multiple images per upload it gets that way quick if youre not careful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Dalton Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 >>>turn off the generation of the picture sizes that you do not need. Hits forehead. Great idea. So simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCharlie Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 I think I will mark this as solved between the ftp incrementals and the image generation options.. people out there with monster backups.. check your image generation setups and/or find an ftp program that will download only newer files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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