Comments on: Are You Backing Up Your Blog?

By: Tom Ross

Tom Ross — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:33:06 +0000

I just use a wp plugin that emails me with a backup daily – gmail can handle that no problem. I would never pay for backup right now..

By: arham | blogpreneur

arham | blogpreneur — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:50:34 +0000

Interesting backup, but Is there any some free service ?…like just for trial service

By: success blogger

success blogger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:18:21 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. For someone who once lost a whole site due to a webhost just disappearing in the morning, I am rather paranoid about backing up my sites.

I could use all the available plugins and also upload to my machine but this is the first time I have heard about backing up on another site.

Thanks for the info.

By: deloresdefacto

deloresdefacto — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:27:38 +0000

I use WP-Backup and have the file sent to my email where I also save it on my hard drive. I learned the hard way about not saving my WP tables and ending up having to start all over again. I also backup manually before I change anything major, like updating to a newer version of Wordpress.
The problem I’ve had is when I’ve changed web hosting accounts, I’ve had to copy and paste my backup file and upload it to the new SQL database. With Firestats running, the backup files become too large for uploading in one step.

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:32:52 +0000

RandomThinker.. thanks for sharing that. That’s a great way to make sure of having the content in your hand. I am guilty of being lax at times but just take comfort in the knowledge that there’s one place that my backup goes to without my effort, just in case.

By: General Marketing Blog

General Marketing Blog — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:21:22 +0000

I back up my database every 4 hours automatically and have it emailed to me. I also back up my files once a day.

By: RandomThinker

RandomThinker — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:55:39 +0000

I’ve been backing up my blog in two different ways. I have downloaded the wp database backup. My db is automatically backed up weekly and emailed to me, and I store it online, somewhere not associated with my hosting account.

I also download all my images, css, php and html files about once per week so if I had to rebuild my blog, I should be able to. Hopefully I will never need to use the backups, but they are there if I need them.