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  • Turn-key Sustainable Homestead on 14.7 acres.
    Turn-key Sustainable Homestead on 14.7 acres. Greenhouse is 20 ft diameter state of the art and solar powered (from Growing Spaces) with aqua/hydroponics set-up. Excavation for in-ground greenhouse 36x18on great south facing slope. Orchard has well established ...and newly planted trees...a large variety, several variety of newly planted nut trees, 11 bluebe […]
  • Modern and Green near Lake Austin!
    $25k below appraisal! Austin/Travis County MLS# 8015445. Built in 2007, this modern and green home is for the most discriminating eco-friendly buyer. Only 20 minutes from central Austin and with a lofty, spacious feel, 2003 Little Beaver has an incredible list of green features: four-zoned HVAC, thick walls, metal and membrane roof, non-toxic adhesives and p […]
  • Austin Green Home, Healthy Living on 4.33 Acres Wildlife Preserve
    JUST REDUCED THE PRICE ON THIS GREEN HOME - NATURAL TECHNOLOGIES for HEALTHY LIVING & REJUVENATION! Designed to Catch the Rising Sun, this 4 Bedroom, 2,788 sqft Custom Home, sits on 4.3 Wooded Acres in the midst of rolling hills, abundant wildlife, & native wildflowers. Superior quality Granite kitchen counters, Premium style Travertine flooring, Bam […]
  • Custom Straw Bale Home
    Upon entering this custom straw bale home, you instantly take in its unique character & earthy elegance. Your eye follows the soft, organic curves of the plaster walls. You observe the sunlight warming the reddish brown concrete floors thru passive solar windows. You note the pine vegas & beams glowing w/ a golden warmth, the copper kitchen wall shin […]
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Backup Policy

We’re pretty obsessive about our backup plan. We hate lost data! As they say, it’s not if a hard drive will fail, it’s when. We’ve got a fairly sizable stack of dead hard drives that has built up over our many years of web serving to prove that hard drives die on a regular basis. Sometimes entire servers do. If you’re wise, you plan for it.

We do an incremental backup every day to separate hard drives, so if the live one fails we can quickly switch to the backup and lose less than a day’s worth of changes. On most servers, there are separate backups for each day of the week.

We make a separate archive copy of all the web, database, mailing list, and similar hosted data once a week, and store it locally for fast recovery if needed and on an off-site server in the event that the local copies aren’t available due to some larger catastrophe.

We retain a copy of the weekly archives for at least a month. The archive nearest the beginning of each month is retained for a full year.

When we build a site using a content management system which has the ability (ie, most of the good ones), we automatically email a backup of the database to an offsite repository once a week.

And despite all the above, we still strongly suggest that you (and/or your web developer) keep an up-to-date copy of all your data in the event catastrophe should strike.