# kirupa.com - Backup Your Site's Data Efficiently...Like a Ninja!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-backup-your-sites-data-efficiently-like-a-ninja/402084>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [December 3, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-backup-your-sites-data-efficiently-like-a-ninja/402084 "2014-12-03T08:20:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupa-com-backup-your-sites-data-efficiently-like-a-ninja/402084/1 "2014-12-03T08:20:16Z")

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by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 30 August 2012

I've been goofing around on this site since 1999. Over those years, I've made every mistake imaginable. The mistakes that I often regretted the most involved losing valuable data. The data I've lost amounted to many hours of work that I had to painstakingly recreate. In some cases, the data I lost was unrecoverable - such as when hundreds of thousands of posts from the forums were deleted when some hackers thought it would be funny. I still can't forgive myself for having carelessly let so many members' contributions on the forums just disappear like that.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/html5/backup\_your\_site\_data\_efficiently\_like\_a\_ninja.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/backup_your_site_data_efficiently_like_a_ninja.htm)