Backing up your data is boring, none of us like doing it, we all know we should but most of us never do. I’m going to look like a real swot now – I back up, every day. Actually I back up using two different programs… every day and I do a full back up every fortnight.
Well… when I say ‘I’ back up, I really mean I have bought some software, a second drive and I have configured it on a schedule to back up every day, so in reality I don’t actually do anything but my data is backed up nonetheless.
Well that’s fine for my local data, but what about my beloved blog and those MySQL tables with their ‘Bits’ all exposed? Well that’s a little more tricky because you don’t have full control of a remote computer.
Help is at hand I have found with a great plugin called wp-db-backup it’s really easy to use and offers multiple back up options like:
- additional tables (core tables included by default)
- back up and saved to a folder on your server
- back up and download the SQL file
- back up and email the SQL file to yourself
- schedule a backup with four time options (hourly, daily etc)
I would recommend everybody get this plugin, your blog should become one of your treasured possessions and you need to look after it.
Another excellent source of back up advice is of course WordPress.org themselves here is a backup article from their codex
September 17th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Good site I \”Stumbledupon\” it today and gave it a stumble for you.. looking forward to seeing what else you have..later
December 11th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Thank you for this information.
June 4th, 2009 at 9:27 am
You have really done a good job on this. Keep it up!
July 1st, 2009 at 6:56 am
My mind asked the question, Google found you and you answered literally in seconds. You rock Ian Blackford.