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Re: Is your blog backed up?

PSD To Wordpress — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:24:53 -0000

You are doing a great job by spreading the word, it's really very important!

Re: Is your blog backed up?

eddiepetosa — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:29:10 -0000

I never considered backing up my blog. I'm using shared web hosting and Wordpress so I don't see why I can't make this happen. If any of you think it's impossible, please let me know before I try it and find out this for myself.

Re: Is your blog backed up?

Burton Kent — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:47:36 -0000

The backup isn't just good for backups alone - it's also how you can move to another web host. I just signed up for HostMonster and had 3 outages (that I know of) in 3 days. So I'm moving my wordpress site to another host.

The MySQL backup is ESSENTIAL for moving the site.

Re: Is your blog backed up?

Allan Webb — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:23:49 -0000

Businesses (whether blogs, or non-internet-based businesses) live or die by their data. Losing everything could amount to losing everything. I prefer off-site backups, as they protect against something catastrophic happening in the office / home.

Re: Is your blog backed up?

ducttape — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:18:44 -0000

Lisa, Thanks for the Blogger tip, didn't mean to be noninclusive.

Re: Is your blog backed up?

ducttape — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:20:06 -0000

Andy,

I hope you're not speaking from a bad experience!

Re: Is your blog backed up?

ducttape — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:29:03 -0000

Adam,

Thanks I will check that plug-in out - I'm for anything that automates a process.

Re: Is your blog backed up?

ducttape — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:28:08 -0000

Steve, thanks - yes the theme is a big on since, even if it's a template, you've probably spent a fair amount of time hacking little tweaks to it.

Re: Is your blog backed up?

Steve — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:04:00 -0000

You can easily backup your posts, comments, custom fields and categories by using the Export option on the Manage tab in the WP admin area. It saves an XML file that can be re-imported from the same menu.

It makes sense to also backup:

1) Your theme folder
2) Images used in posts
3) Plugins

Cheers,
Steve.

Re: Is your blog backed up?

achernow — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:20:34 -0000

Actually, if you're on a self-hosted Wordpress blog, there's a plug-in by the name of "Wordpress Database Backup" that AUTOMATICALLY sends a .sql file of my database every Monday to my Gmail address. I could configure it to be more often if I wanted to, but I'm not a high-volume blogger, so weekly back-ups are just fine for me.

It helped me the other day when something went screwy and WP couldn't see my db. I just re-created things and everything was Kosher.

Re: Is your blog backed up?

May — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:48:40 -0000

Always good to back up anything!!! :)

Re: Is your blog backed up?

Guest — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:43:29 -0000

Really, really good advice, John.