CodeGuard is a service that provides an automatic website / database backup solution. It monitors your website / database regularly. If any changes are detected, it will notify you about the changes and backup your website / database. It also allows you to restore your website / database to a previous version.
If your website is hosted on our Linux servers, use the SFTP option. Also, you must use the default SFTP user that comes with your control panel account. You cannot connect to CodeGuard using any other FTP user.
In case of other hosting providers, you can choose either the FTP or SFTP option, based on your service provider's settings.
Hosting companies tend to keep your backups in the same place as your primary files. In case of any eventuality, along with your primary files, your backups too will be affected. CodeGuard provides safe, offsite backup that is 100% independent from your hosting provider.
Moreover, hosting companies provide you only the latest backup. CodeGuard follows a versioning system and allows you to restore a backup of an earlier date as well.
After you add a website, any new files or directories that you add to your site will automatically backed up. CodeGuard will only exclude files and directories that you don't select when adding your website. If you need to change how your website is backed up, you need to delete and re-add your website. However, this should be handled with care as you will lose your backups. This option is only recommended if you have just added your website.
CodeGuard only supports MySQL database.
Plans are month-to-month. You will be billed at the beginning of each month period by CloudFlare, based on your initial billing date.
CodeGuard can connect via FTP or SFTP to backup your static content. A connection to your server is opened once/day, and once the server connection is established, CodeGuard will check to see if any files have changed. If changes are detected, only the changed files will be transmitted to CodeGuard's servers. This keeps your bandwidth usage low and minimizes server impact.
You have several options in backing up your databases. CodeGuard can connect directly to your MySQL database, typically through Port 3306, or by tunneling over SSH with your FTP credentials or different credentials. Similar to backing up the static content, CodeGuard will open a connection once/day. Different than the static content backup though, is that the entire database will be downloaded each time a connection is opened. The database is examined by our version control system once it reaches our servers, and only the new or changed content is stored.
Yes, you can! Multiple websites can be backed up with CodeGuard, and if you have more than two or three, we highly recommend the Professional or Enterprise Plans. These plans are feature rich with tools for managing and overseeing multiple backups for different clients, and are intended for small businesses, designers, developers, and agencies.
CodeGuard utilizes Amazon's Simple Storage Service, also known as S3. While Amazon has several different services, this is the most reliable storage system on the planet, with 99.999999999% reliability. Each of the nines after the decimal point count - there are nine of them - and this means that your backups are safe with CodeGuard.
CodeGuard opens a connection with your server once a day, and checks to see if anything has changed. We do this by looking at the names of the files, the time stamps on them, and the file sizes. If any changes are found, you will be notified via email of those changes, and a new backup of that changed content will commence. This is important because websites are vulnerable - to human error in editing, to outside attack, and technology/hardware failures. Now you will know immediately if something happens to your site, and you can remedy it quickly.
When a user seeks to restore a previous version of their website, the first thing CodeGuard does is to check the live website to see what content is on it. This enables us to quickly push (or pull) the differences to or from your site. For instance, you might experience a hack that changes your .htaccess file and nothing else. Rather than reload your entire site, CodeGuard would simply replace the infected .htaccess file with your old clean copy.
What database user permissions are needed to backup and restore?The database user that you specify in CodeGuard must have the appropriate permissions granted. It is recommended that the user has the permissions for both backup and restore actions:
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Customers can restore their website or database to any previous backup version. They can download a zip of the contents at any time, choose an automatic restore, or restore individual files and folders. Backups are stored on Amazon Web Services Simple Storage System, known as S3. S3 boasts object durability levels of 99.999999999%, achieved by storing redundant copies of data across multiple geographies and facilities. S3 is not the cheapest alternative for data storage, but it is one of the most reliable.
CodeGuard's privacy policy can be located here.
By default, only 90 days of backups are stored. You can choose to retain all backups, from the Backup Retention Settings section in the ACCOUNT SETTINGS view. You can navigate to this view through the SETTINGS -> ACCOUNT menu, within your CodeGuard account.
Your data is stored utilizing Server Side Encryption (SSE) with one of the strongest block ciphers available, 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256).
