Dreamhost hosting plan is come with backup feature, that offering you 4gb web storage space for backup your files and setting. If you having hosting account, probably there will be some setting done to account, and there are lots of files and database involved as well. You need to perform some backup regulary to prevent data lost. Dreamhost hosting is now with 4gb backup storage space.
But there is huge limitation to dreamhost backup feaature so far. For example, the backup service might take days to complete your single backup request. Another issue is that you can only perform backup once every 30 days. There might be data lost between the 30 days next backup task.
“Your ENTIRE account is now scheduled to be backed up! This can take a while since you may have a lot of data to archive, however we will send you an email once it finishes with instructions for downloading your backed up-data!”
“Your account backup is currently scheduled and may take as long as several days. You will be emailed when it finishes!“
