Add daily email for 2025-03-14

Static websites are easy to backup

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+title: Static websites are easy to backup
+date: 2025-03-14
+permalink: daily/2025/03/14/backup
+tags:
+  - software-development
+  - static-websites
+  - static-site-generators
+  - sculpin
+cta: ~
+snippet: |
+  Static websites are easy to backup and restore.
+draft: true
+---
+
+As well as being [easy to build][0] and [simple to deploy][1], static websites are easy to backup and, if needed, restore.
+
+I backup several static websites from my server using rsync - the same command I use to deploy them.
+
+rsync is fast as it only downloads files that have changed, so backing up several websites only takes a few seconds.
+
+There are are no databases to worry about - all I need to do is backup the static files themselves.
+
+Running the backups is also easy.
+
+I have a scheduled cron job that downloads everything from the `/var/www/vhosts` directory on my server and creates a local copy.
+
+If I need to restore from a backup or migrate to a different server, I just run the appropriate rsync command to re-upload them - the same as how I deployed them originally.
+
+[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2025/03/12/easy
+[1]: {{site.url}}/daily/2025/03/13/deploy