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= Backup your data =

[wiki:"What is SourceForge.net?" SourceForge.net] performs routine backups for all of our servers and will restore from these backups in the event of catastrophic server failure (e.g. in the event of equipment failure, datacenter loss, etc.).  There is a cost associated with restores from our backup solution.  Due to our backup methods, we are unable to do per-project data restores.

We encourage projects to make their own backups, to permit the project to restore data on their own as needed.  In each of our service-related [wiki:"WikiStart" site docs] we include a reminder to perform backups.

= Data backup methods =

!SourceForge.net provides easy-to-use facilities to enable projects to backup all of their data.

||'''Data type'''||'''Backup method'''||
||[wiki:"Bazaar"]||[wiki:"Bazaar#Backups" rsync]
||[wiki:"CVS"]||[wiki:"Using rsync for backups" rsync]
||[wiki:"Forums"] (built-in)||[wiki:"XML export"]
||[wiki:"Git"]||[wiki:"Git#Backups" rsync]
||[wiki:"Release files for download" File Release System (FRS)]||Download files from the FRS
||[wiki:"Hosted Apps"]||[wiki:"Hosted apps backup facility"]
||[wiki:"Mailing lists"]||[wiki:"Mailing list archive backups (mbox files)"]
||[wiki:"Mercurial"]||[wiki:"Mercurial#Backups" rsync]
||[wiki:"News"]||[wiki:"XML export"]
||[wiki:"Project database"]||[wiki:"Using mysqldump for backups" mysqldump] or [wiki:"phpMyAdmin"]
||[wiki:"Project web"]||[wiki:"Using the file management service for backups" File management service]
||[wiki:"Subversion"] (SVN)||[wiki:"Using rsync for backups" rsync]
||[wiki:"Tracker"]||[wiki:"XML export"]
||User home directory (including [wiki:"Developer web"])||[wiki:"Using the file management service for backups" File management service]  ||
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