On 11 Jul 2012, at 7:25 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
> If you pay the $100, dropbox has a 6month restore. I do not know if it will 
> save all the versions of the file, or only some snapshot.

I wouldn't count on dropbox to safely back up a live sqlite database, for the 
same reason you can't simply copy the file: you might get the database in an 
inconsistent state. Use the sqlite3 .backup command instead to take a snapshot. 
Send its output to a dropbox folder if you like.

> 
> On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 03:16:29 UTC-5, villas wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm looking for any easy way to backup small websites which use Sqlite.  I 
> found an interesting suggestion from Massimo:
> 
> >> Put web2py in a dropbox folder! Once a day hg commit the entire folder. 
> 
> That sounds good,  but would it make a safe copy of the data?  
> 
> In any case, does anyone have other ideas?
> 
> Regards, David


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