How important are server backups

**Gewing5** · 10-13-2011, 12:25 AM

I never had a host that was showed a good responsibility about my backups. I requested a few times my old files to be restored and just once they did it but the backup was too old, which means they do less frequent backups than they claim. How important are server backups... from your experience?

**natoli** · 04-25-2012, 10:40 AM

That's usually something that you need to do on your own. If you use wordpress there are some good plugins that can automated the process and even transfer the backup file in dropbox or ftp place for you.

**Scintillion** · 05-04-2012, 09:05 PM

Backups are extremely important, however it probably isn't a good idea to rely soley on server backups, or even automated backups done by WordPress plugins.