Dreamhost users - some great news!

[bodsham]

Though I suspect most Dreamhost customers don't know it, this excellent service backs up your site automatically and stores it in an invisible folder in the root. The big problem is finding it, because it ain't easy without resorting to the command line.
I mailed Jason here today and asked if it was possible using Yummy (I also have Transmit and have asked them the same question, and not got a reply). The directory is hidden and doesn't show, even if you turn on show invisibles. Well, to cut a long story short, Jason spent some time on a Saturday looking into this and came up with a solution that means these hidden backups are immediately visible in Yummy and restorable with a click. It's amazing...

His way of doing it is...
Go To Directory...' from the 'Listing' menu, enter .snapshot and click Go to enter the directory and see the contents in Yummy.

If you are a Dreamhost user, I suggest you give it a try.

[tdominey]

Ah, very interesting! Thanks for the tip.

[lucite]

Good news, but the overall benefit is minimal if the snapshot is on the same hard drive, no?

[paulc]

Yes and no. The host provider should have their own daily back up that saves the entire drive for multiple customers. Typically, there is a sort of backup function that provides only for you inadvertantly deleting files on the server that you don't mirror locally.

However, the downside is that this "backup" also takes up part of you disk space allocation.

FWIW, I have an absolute local mirror of everything on my server AND that is also part of my local backup.