Comments on: What’s On Your Blog’s Monthly Maintenance Schedule?

By: Rose DesRochers

Rose DesRochers — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:27:23 +0000

I backup my blog once a week. Good question there Lorelle.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:23:30 +0000

Hrm, tough questions.

I also have automated backups from my host so I don’t do that manually. I do keep up on the latest WP fixes but that’s a catch is catch can proposition, not something that’s regular.

Really, I can’t say I have a regular maintenance schedule, I guess I should get one fast!

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:41:26 +0000

Hmm. I thought that would be obvious, but I guess it isn’t. This applies to ANY link within your blog that is absolute and not relative, not just images. All of those need to be changed to their new location.

WordPress.com’s image storage setup makes it difficult to move images as the images are in monthly folders, which are not created through the import. You have to create them manually.

I’ll look more into this to see what solutions there are to streamlining this. Thanks for the reminder!

Vox: Backup is important, and it looks like you’ve got that covered, but what else do you do regularly to maintain your blog?

By: Going Like Sixty

Going Like Sixty — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:46:13 +0000

Word of warning: when I moved from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, there was no alert that photos I uploaded to .com would NOT transfer to .org.

By: Vox

Vox — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:36:51 +0000

My hosting provider does backups of my whole server every night, plus I do a db backup every friday night and a files backup the first friday of every month (ie. actually earlier tonight/last night :)

My hosting keeps their backups for 24hr, I keep my db backups for a month, and I keep my files backup for 3 months.

I’m pretty sure that should disaster hit me, I’d be able to get back up and running without more than an hour or two of downtime, loosing nothing more than a single post, at the most.