Backing up your blog

[queerunity]

How does one back up their blog, I hear of horror stories where someone gets hacked and loses everything.

Is there a website that copies and saves your blog for you?

[jshaffstall]

Depends on if you're on Blogger or Wordpress.

For Wordpress, you can manually do an export of your content, or you can get a plugin that will email a backup to you: Il Filosofo » WordPress Database Backup

For Blogger, here's a post that talks about options: How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog

Jay

[ffnstuff]

We just wrote a post about this:

Are You Backing Up Your Blog? | Blog About Your Blog

[thenetfool]

I used my control panel (Plesk). It's even easier on CPanel, which a lot of hosts use nowadays.
I would ask your webmaster if he has any kind of server backup service that can do it automatically for you.

[queerunity]

i use blogstart (google blogger) I TRIED FOR AN HOUR TO BACK IT UP! its very hard so im gonna try again later i dunno maybe its hopeless

[queerunity]

thank you ffnstuff the link to http://www.blogbackuponline.com is phenomenal and easy. now hopefully i wont need to know what to do if my blog ever dissapears but i have it saved. what would one do if it dissapeared and they had that stuff saved? just for reference.

[netentre]

I'm on WordPress and use a plugin from Il Filosofo » WordPress Database Backup

I've done a post about it quite a while ago, here.

As to BlogBackupOnline, seems like a good service, but what about you db's going through someone else.. Not for me.

[kathiemt]

Originally Posted by queerunity

How does one back up their blog, I hear of horror stories where someone gets hacked and loses everything.

Is there a website that copies and saves your blog for you?

I've gone through exactly this problem. I've been with my webhost for many years and he backs up all my websites nightly. But it appears that doesn't happen for the blogs at all - different process. I've just lost 3 year's worth of blog entries on one of my blogs and now am waiting to see if he has anything at all that I can retrieve or if I give it up for lost and start again. It wasn't a blog that was generating income or anything, simply a family blog, but it did record family weddings, overseas trips and all sorts of stuff and I hadn't backed it up myself thinking it was being backed up nightly.

I have to now go through all my blogs and make sure they are all being regularly backed up which is a pain but probably better I know now.

[queerunity]

if you have a backup service and something yikes happens to your blog, what do you do to back up?

[infektia]

It's better to learn how to use the phpmyadmin if you have it on your own host...