Great Thread Jay,
I back up my whole site regularly you don't realize how important it is until you've lost it. ALL OF IT... It's a nightmare for sure and I hope some of you reading this who haven't lately or ever get on it so if something does happen you will be covered.
If you are using CPANEL you can just go to "Backups" Make sure you download the site and the SQL databases which are underneath. That is the method I use most often however will look into the plugin. If you aren't using cpanel I'd assume it's more difficult so the plugin would be your best bet.
That reminds me... Time to do a backup
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Originally Posted by jshaffstall
I ran across a blog today whose author had lost her entire blog due to a problem upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress.
That's a sick feeling, even when it isn't happening to you, the idea that someone's hard work has gone up in smoke. Luckily, she was able to recover from a recent backup and pull the rest of the more recent content from Google's cache.
I can imagine that this would kill many blogs if the content weren't recoverable. It's enough work writing content the first time, let alone rewriting it!
I've just installed the wp-db-backup plugin on my blog. It's available at Il Filosofo » WordPress Database Backup
By default it doesn't do any scheduled backups, but you can set it to email you backups on an daily or weekly basis (hourly, too, but I'm not that obsessive yet).
Jay |