About Sitecore Backup

Question

I am trying to backup a whole Sitecore website.
I know that the package designer can do part of the job, but not entirely.
Having a backup is always a good way when the site is broken accidently.
Is there a way or a tool to backup the whole Sitecore website?
I am new to the Sitecore, so any advise is welcome.
Thank you!

Answer 1

We've got a SQL job running to back-up the databases nightly. Apart from that, when I deploy code and it's a small bit I usually end up backing up only the parts I'm going to replace. If it's a big code deploy I just back up the whole website (code-wise anyway) before deploying the code package.

Apart from that we also run scheduled backups of the code (although I don't know the intervals), and of course we've got source control if everything else fails.

If you've got an automated deployment tool you could also automate the above of course.