Thank you, Mieke for the kind words! I appreciate your feedback.

I’m in the same boat as you are, I have many sites out there and it’s a tough thing to try and download on a regular basis. Admittedly I don’t do all the sites all the time.

As I develop a site, I ensure that I keep back-ups online — easy for a static site however for WordPress sites – impossible, you’re forced to download regularly.

One “solution” – though not perfect would be to transfer the back-up from one site to another on-line storage system. There are several to choose from.

Since the webhost creates a downloadable file, you should be able to transfer a file from your host where your site is to another host (online storage system).

Years ago when I ran TurboTrafficEngine (http://www.turbotrafficengine.com). Users that created massive adsense sites had this problem, so I set-up a host-to-host F-T-P system.

From within the application, they would enter their own sites FTP parameters and the application would transfer the file directly into their site without coming down to their PC then from PC to the site.

Host to host file transfer will also be FAST since most hosts are on incredibly quick connections – so transferring gigabytes of info between systems is quicker than downloading to your PC then back to the host.

Make sense?

Give me another shout if its confusing and I’ll try and clear it up further.

Regards,

Mohamed

Just finished reading your report. Thanks for the clear info.

However, if you have several sites on different servers, this method takes up a lot of bandwith. My ISP only allows me to up- and download 10GB every month – when I backup all my sites once, I use half of that. And backing up only once a month is not such a good idea, since I’m pretty active )

I was wondering if you know about any solutions that won’t require a full download every time again – so I can save my bandwidth to build my ebiz?

Greetz!
Mieke