Do You Backup Your Affiliate Websites?

Affiliate Blogs · **Do You Backup Your Affiliate Websites? -** 11-14-2006

As affiliate marketers, we sometimes develop a very large number of sites, with a lot of pages on each site. So, I feel compelled to warn everyone about the importance of backing up software web files.
A couple of months ago, my computer decided to give me the Black Screen of Death! This is the first time in my history of computing this has happened to me. Fortunately, most of my files were backed up.
However, my program files were not.
So, I had to go out and get the programs again and reload them. It was not a problem in most cases. But I lost XsitePro.
If you use XsitePro, you know that it stores all of its files on your hard drive. It then uploads them to the web when you publish. It’s a very nice system, and works like a charm.
The software also has a handy backup function. With a click of a button, it will create a backup of all of the web pages you have stored in the software. It takes about half a minute to do a full backup (maybe more depending on your file size(s), but it is very quick).
HOWEVER, if you do not do the backup, and you have to reload the program, you will have to manually copy/paste EVERY page from your web site, back into the software. You can not recover them from the original files that are stored on your computer.
You will also have to reload all of your keywords and descriptions again. It took me about a week to recreate four sites, and they are only about 20 pages each! Ugh.
This is one lesson you don’t want to learn the hard way. The only reason to blog about it is this: when I was desperately trying to find out how to get my files back, I ran into many more people that had this problem. Some had thousands of pages to reload.
The answer was always the same: If you do not have the backup that was made by XsitePro, you are out of luck!
So, if you use XsitePro do yourself a big favor and backup your files. It’s easy, just go into the software and click on:
Tools - Backup/Restore � Do Full Backup
It will save your site in backup/recovery format to your hard drive, which I hope you are backing up to an external drive.
You may someday be very glad you do not have to recreate all of your affiliate marketing websites!

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