Backing up data from Arvixe and send it to DropBox

Last Updated on Monday, 21 January 2013 12:01 Written by David Bauernschmidt Monday, 21 January 2013 12:00

If you are like me than backing up data seems to be a thankless task. On one hand you wish people would appreciate the need for it, while on the other you hope people never need it. It can be very time consuming and tedious. Using Arvixe Control is easily to set up scheduled task to backup databases, files, and web sites — which is a great first step. However; backing up your data on the same server or at the same location is not only inadequate, it is also can be dangerous. Even Arvixe has this to say about backup and restore;

How to Encrypt Data Inside a web.config

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2012 09:32 Written by David Bauernschmidt Sunday, 11 November 2012 12:00

Several weeks ago I was offered an opportunity to write articles for Arvixe. This is not only an exciting offer because of the vast number of people that will read it, but also because Arvixe is a great company. Their support has been impeccable and their desire to help has far exceeded my thoughts. (This is not because my thoughts are low).

My goal in writing articles is to provide an avenue that other developers can come to experience Arvixe in the way I am. Most of my how to articles will be around the Arvixe asp.net platform but most can be adjusted to accommodate other hosting providers. The great thing about development is that there are many ways to accomplish the same task.

Someone once asked me this question, “David, what is the best way to implement {fill in the blank}”. To which my response was, “Yes”. As you read my articles if you have a different way than just drop me a note. After all this is how we learn. So here goes the first one……

Before we get to the specific example, let me say, that Googling, Yahooing, Binging (is that a word?) will return many options so this not the only one, it is the one that I find is the most versatile. It can be used for many things.

How to Get Data into Silverlight

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 August 2012 12:34 Written by Andrew Ivanov Saturday, 11 August 2012 12:00

How to Backup Your Database Using WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Friday, 29 June 2012 06:47 Written by Arian Jahansouz Friday, 29 June 2012 12:00

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to schedule automatic backups of your databases from your WebsitePanel

If you want to manually backup and restore a database one time, please refer to this article

Sign into your WebsitePanel and follow these steps:

1) Click Scheduled Tasks

2) Click Add Scheduled Task

How to Backup Your Database Using cPanel

Last Updated on Friday, 29 June 2012 08:25 Written by Arian Jahansouz Friday, 29 June 2012 12:00

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to backup your database from your cPanel

If you want to manually backup and restore specific files and folders, please refer to this article

Sign into your cPanel and follow these steps:

1) Click Backups

2) Under Download a MySQL Database Backup, click on the database you would like to download