Best practices for making backups of a ghost blog

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Hello, I have two blogs made with Ghost and hosted on webfaction.

Under SSH for each blog I have this structure:

bin
ghost
lib
run

I know that webfaction already does a daily backup of my stuff, but I'd like to have a personal copy too.
For this reason I put the "ghost" folder under git, I set-up a private repository on bitbucket, and at the moment from SSH I'm manually entering the commands

git add .
git commit -m "Backup on DD/MM/YYYY"
git push

From my webfaction account I've generated a SSH key and then I added it to my bitbucket account, and now I can access my private repositories from webfaction SSH. In the future I'd like to set up a cron job that might do a daily backup of my site.

Do you think that this is a safe and good idea ? Are there any security flaws in this process that I should be aware of?

Thank you and best regards

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I know that webfaction already does a daily backup of my stuff, but I'd like to have a personal copy too.

Actually, we back up only once per week, and we keep only a two week history of backups. We very strongly recommend that you keep your own offsite backups of your data, made according to whatever schedule meets your needs - so it's good that you're doing this!

From my webfaction account I've generated a SSH key and then I added it to my bitbucket account, and now I can access my private repositories from webfaction SSH. In the future I'd like to set up a cron job that might do a daily backup of my site.

Do you think that this is a safe and good idea ? Are there any security flaws in this process that I should be aware of?

Sure, it's a great idea. Just be sure to keep your home directory permissions secure, so that other users can't get to your keys.

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