How to backup a dev & QA folder website structure?

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Published on 2012-10-10T07:29:58Z Indexed on 2012/10/10 9:52 UTC
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A site I just became in charge of uses a really simple two folder structure to host the dev site and the QA site. The sites are hosted on the company servers so I just have the sites' folders mapped on my desktop.

I would like to run some kind of backup scheme, but I am finding it hard to think of a way to do this effectively.

The problem is that we aren't using any revision control software, and since the servers aren't controlled by me, I don't think I will be able to implement anything like that. Or could I?

The entire site is static too, so no DB's or anything besides html, images, PDFs, etc.

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