Review: How to Backup Your Files to Your Dreamhost Account (OS X)

by Ross McKillop on September 16, 2008

The popular web hosting company Dreamhost recently decided to change a policy they had in place that didn’t allow customers to use their storage space to backup files. Now you’re given 50GB of storage space to use as backup. This change in policy does come with one caveat - the backups aren’t backed up. So, if for whatever reason the Dreamhost backup server that stores your files happens to die, your files die with it.

So while you probably don’t want to make it your primary backup solution, it’s still a nice feature (since you’re already paying for web hosting). This tutorial will guide you through using mathusalem (free backup software) to automatically FTP the files you want to backup to Dreamhost.

In truth, this tutorial could also be called “How to backup files using mathusalem” - because that’s essentially what it is. I just happen to use Dreamhost as the remote …

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