Backing up your blog

[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

[Bloggeries]

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

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

[jshaffstall]

Thanks for the reminder about the site-wide backup, too. I have a couple of sites that are overdue!

Jay

[Zhuli]

Any idea how to back up a blogger blog by any chance ? I'm gonna have nightmares now

[jshaffstall]

It isn't quite as easy in Blogger as in Wordpress, but here's a post that discusses options: How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog

Jay

[Zhuli]

Thanks for the link, I'm gonna read that !

[vneely]

Ha, what a timely thread. It was getting about time for me to do another blog backup!

[Bloggeries]

I hope that you are backing up your blog atleast weekly. If you lose even a few days it's awful and it just can't be replaced. Sometimes you are lucky and can get it back from cached pages on search engines. If you lose more than a week it can be devastating to your blogs momentum and put you at risk of burning out. I try and backup daily simply because everyone here has added their thoughts and comments which took time so it's my responsibility to ensure it's safeguarded. I've lost data before and it's just so much worse than you imagine when you neglect to do it. It also takes so much more time restoring compared to the time required to backup.That reminds me time to do the daily backup.

I'm going to have to look into a chron job for this.

Rob

Originally Posted by vneely

Ha, what a timely thread. It was getting about time for me to do another blog backup!

[Zhuli]

I tried to back up my blog via blogger's advice, but it didn't work out.

So I google around and found this great free software which backups the posts and the comments : Blogger Backup

Worked perfectly for me !

[_xhan]

I always used to back up once a month or whatever and the one time I didn't back up my host had a server crash and my entire SQL database was lost! I was livid! They upgraded me to unlimited everything after I complained so much but then they hacked me and tried to charge me for it! Let this be a lesson - dont use ace-host.net!!

I just back up though phpmyadmin now - but my DB is huge because of BAstats!