Anyone use Square Space web platform? / backups, exports?

[Michael L]

Hello NLUG,

We are in a situation with our Joomla website and have a Square Space web designer offering to rebuild the entire site instead of waste time fixing the broken Joomla situation.  I do want to move away from Joomla, but online review of Square Space mentions backups not being a feature and I believe exporting the site is a related unavailable feature.

The developer told me:  "

Squarespace doesn’t require backups because all data is held on dynamic servers that can move around without the end user even noticing. 

Backups are not even a consideration. What is, is access control to ensure you don’t have unauthorized people making changes you may have to undo. But that’s proper change management and that’s assumed in any efficient organization because it’s fundamental."

I'm wondering if we do have a security breach mess things up, can we undo the damage by restoring?  And if we decide that Square Space isn't for us, exporting to something else would be good.

Have any of you dealt with Square Space before?

[Michael L]

And yes I did try wget on another Squarespace site, got a 429 too many requests error for which I didn't add a delay to work around yet and there's HTTrack which I haven't tried yet.  So we'll just keep a backup of our current Joomla site and proceed, so I've answered my own question, BUT input from NLUG is golden .. will take any other suggestions .. thankful I didn't wait any longer to go to NLUG.

[Kent Perrier]

What is their story if they get crypto-lockered or you accidentally delete something important and don't realize it until 60 days later?

The whole "backups are not a consideration" is highly suspicious.

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[Greg Donald]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:37 AM Kent Perrier <kent.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What is their story if they get crypto-lockered or you accidentally delete something important and don't realize it until 60 days later?
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> The whole "backups are not a consideration" is highly suspicious.

Especially given
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-3496/Joomla.html

Just a matter of time.

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[John F. Eldredge]

Speaking as a former system administrator, having backups is always a good idea. Not only is computer hardware and software fallible, but a human can make a change and later decide it was a mistake.

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