Backing up your blog with scheduled backup plugin

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Posted in » Blogging Tips, WordPress - by Ades on February 16th, 2008

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One of the most important things in Information Technology is “backup”. You need to backup your important data regularly. These data can be your work related things, your own important documents on your PC, your blog that is hosted somewhere else, your blog’s database that is managed by someone else other than you.

Basically, you should be ready and be able to restore your data/blog to the latest backed up version (usually yesterday’s version) if you were to lose your data or if your blog crashed.

What you should remember regarding backup:

    Backup regularly (self explanatory)

    Have more than one copy of the same backup

    In case your backup CD is scratched and can’t be used. Or your Gmail is hijacked by someone else and you do not have access to your email. Whatever the reason, it’s good to have more than one backup.

    Have your backups in physically different locations

    Having 10 different backups of your data in your PC is not really a good idea. Neither having 10 different copies of the same backup in the same room. What happens if your hard drive crashes? your room catches fire?

    This is one of the reasons why large corporations have different server farms in different states and countries. So that if servers in one location goes awry, servers in other location can take the load, and the customers won’t notice anything.

I know you must be saying “it won’t happen to me”, “not to my pc”. This won’t happen to me mentality is quite common actually. And this mentality is the one that makes a person go into denial when something bad befalls him/her. And usually when it happens to them, they scream “WHY ME-EEE?!” and start blaming others and God for the incident.

Backing up your blog

So, if you don’t want to blame your hosting provider over your blog data loss. You should really be using the below plugin. This WP Plugin will allow you to automatically backup your blog’s database to your email. Of course, Gmail is a good candidate for this job with its everyday growing size.

You can even backup hourly, but I think if you post one or two posts a day, daily backup will be sufficient. Below is a screenshot of the plugin (scheduled backup section).

daily blog backup

WP Backup Plugin can be downloaded from: www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/


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9 Responses to “Backing up your blog with scheduled backup plugin”

  1. By Lori on Feb 16, 2008

    I use this and receive my backup copy daily. I had some major screwups on my blog and if it wasn’t for that, I would have lost a great deal! It’s EXTREMELY easy to setup and there’s no excuse for people not to use it. People who don’t take the time to do this don’t care that much about their blog.

  2. By Recliners on Feb 16, 2008

    Thanks for that timely post! I have realised at my own peril , the importance of backing up data.

  3. By AndrewPavelski on Feb 16, 2008

    Thanks for the post… I definitely need to back up my data more often!

  4. By chuks Ugoji on Feb 16, 2008

    Yes, I totally agree with you. Backups can be a valuable resource when the chips are down

  5. By Surveys Blogger on Feb 17, 2008

    This plug-in is so easy to install and use and it will give you peace of mind knowing that if your blog crashes you can restore it. Can you imagine losing all of the hard work that has gone into your blog because of a hard drive failure? Don’t hesitate, just get it and use it, one day when the server that hosts your blog crashes you’ll be glad you read this post.

  6. By Make Money Online on Feb 20, 2008

    I didn’t even consider this when I started working online, but your post does highlight the benefits in such a way that you have convinced me to make an active choice to start backing up.

  7. By Robert Irizarry on Mar 9, 2008

    You may also want to check out Lester Chan’s WP-DBManager. According to the site, it “allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.”

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