Many people may like to backup their dedicated server using fsdump. The question is which folders should you backup?
In most cases, you should only need to backup your website’s content, databases and e-mails. Other things like PHP, Apache and some applications don’t need to be backed up because those can be eaisly reinstalled in case of some issue.
I would encourage backing up httpd.conf and any other configuration files that you’ve changed though. Re-installs might get Apache working if the drive went bad, but it would be a bare bones re-install without the virtual host stuff you might have added.
So that should give you a little more information on backing up your dedicated hosting account.
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