[benbristow]

What type of site is it?

[jagger27]

Important question. If it's a Wordpress site, then all you need to back up is the theme and your MySQL db. If it's a static site then just use rsync or sync to a git service.

[fergbrain]

And your /wp-contents/uploads/ folder...probably worth backing up everything in /wp-contents/ since some plugins create additional directories.