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By: pelf

pelf — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:50:02 +0000

I schedule automatic daily backups and have them sent to my email every night (whether or nor I published any new posts in the last 24 hours).

I know it sounds crazy, but I’ve lost my blog before so I want to ensure that that never happen to me again :D

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:55:47 +0000

I use WordPress Database backup to automatically email me a backup of my database weekly, if I lose one week of posts, it isn’t that terrible.

(when I get the email I backup all of the files on my server so that I have a full and fresh backup every week)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:52:56 +0000

Blog is successfully backed up. Thanks for the reminder.

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By: Gyutae Park

Gyutae Park — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:30:01 +0000

As a blogger, your brand and your content is probably your biggest asset. It amazes me how people take that so lightly and fail to backup their databases. Plugins make the process so much easier so there’s really no excuse for not backing up. Don’t be lazy.

By: KK aka Tina

KK aka Tina — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:32:11 +0000

I discovered phpMyAdmin can’t handle to import more than 2MB of data with my host. So if you have a larger database, you have to find out how much can your phpMyAdmin handle.

It’s also good to simulate a recovery phase so that if in case of a real incident, you know how to recover fast and it’ll be less stressful.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:20:23 +0000

I would recommend each and every owner of a website set up a ‘cron job’ to backup and email/FTP/SSH the results of the backup daily. Any half decent host should have the option in their control panel. You never know when things go wrong, and they invariably do at the worse time.