Nexcess Knowledge Base

This article will give you an overview of Nexcesss website backups, the Nexcess data backup policy, and how to create a manual backup from the Nexcess Client Portal in an ad hoc fashion.

Using rsync for backups on Linux/Unix systems is done to synchronize files and directories between systems — a reliable method of providing offsite backups or mirroring websites.

Site backups are important! Every Nexcess web hosting plan comes with free daily courtesy backups that are automatically created and kept for 30 days on a remote backup server.

Nexcess Cloud Plans allow manual creation of full account backups to be kept locally on the server for quick accessibility or stored elsewhere for additional security