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As well as being easy to build and simple to deploy, 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.

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As well as being easy to build and simple to deploy, 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.

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