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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.
---

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