Comments on: Backup Your Blog Regularly

By: Make Money Easy Online

Make Money Easy Online — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:40:58 +0000

Am glad I found this post and I am taking Daniel advise.

But can anyone teach me how to install it on my localhost so that I can go through some of the posts and after editing, upload into my server?

Thanks in advance.

By: Digitalmalay Digital Issues

Digitalmalay Digital Issues — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:13:04 +0000

Thanks man.I’m looking for this info.But i think it is wise to put some snapshot to make it more clearer

By: Armand

Armand — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:22:16 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I guess it’s also useful when you’re going to transfer your current blog to another hosting services.

By: Bang Kritikus

Bang Kritikus — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:57:21 +0000

Thanks Daniel, good point to prevent our blog and folder from accident

By: Computer Backup

Computer Backup — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:15:14 +0000

yeah, theres really no excuse for not doing it, especially when you can do it for free.
-jack

By: Sheraz Ahmed

Sheraz Ahmed — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:54:33 +0000

Hi I am searching blog backup utility.
Can u tell me about WP-DB-Backup, what is this?

By: Darjinfo

Darjinfo — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:29:44 +0000

Thanks for the info, very useful… i am using WP-DB-Backup and it is quite handy.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:45:42 +0000

I have a LiveJournal blog which I use the LiveJournal Crossposter plugin on. It automatically copies my posts to LiveJournal, updates them if I edit, and deletes them if I delete them on my blog. It will even has an option to cross-post old entries in the settings.

Posting doesn’t seem any slower, and I have a running backup of my blog posts on LiveJournal.

By: Computer Backup

Computer Backup — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:16:24 +0000

yeah and the good thing about backup is that a lot of companies offer it for free, or very cheap. its worth it… especially if you have files you cannot afford to lose or replace.
-Mikey

By: FT Lauderdale Real Estate

FT Lauderdale Real Estate — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:55:06 +0000

ohh, i havent backed up in a while, thanks for the reminder

By: Blog Backup Addict

Blog Backup Addict — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:04:10 +0000

This post (and its comments) supports the theory that most bloggers don’t backup their blogs. I cannot stress enough how this is important.

Fellow bloggers heed the call. Back up your blogs now and regularly from now on.

By: Ngarag

Ngarag — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:16:35 +0000

Great and interesting tip. This is a very helpful resource to all bloggers like me who don’t want to lose their blogs.

By: Sondan

Sondan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:32:52 +0000

How do I backup my WordPress Hosted (WordPress.com) blog database please? I recently had to restore about a dozen posts on my blog from the Google Cache and the Technorati Cache since WP couldn’t/wouldn’t get to my request to restore in entirety.

I would love to have my own backup so that I don’t have to depend on anyone but myself to restore.

Thanks in advance

By: Mieke Janssens

Mieke Janssens — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:47:54 +0000

Thanks for the great tips

I’ve been looking for an easy way to back up my websites (including my blogs). Unfortunately if you have several sites on different servers, manually downloading all files takes up a lot of bandwith.
My ISP only allows me to up- and download 10GB every month – when I backup all my sites once, I use half of that. And backing up only once a month is not such a good idea, since I’m pretty active :o)

I was wondering if anybody knows any solutions that won’t require a full download every time again – so I can save my bandwidth to build my ebiz?

Greetz!
Mieke

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By: Yong Hwee

Yong Hwee — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:29:57 +0000

I’ve just started a new blog and this will come in handy in future. Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:26:04 +0000

I just wrote this handy little script that you may find useful…

By: William Profet from OneJobTwoSalaries.com

William Profet from OneJobTwoSalaries.com — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:26:02 +0000

The backup is one of the most important and the most postponed activity!

Make it a ritual and do it frequently!

Regards,
William

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:18:34 +0000

Last week my web host went down for about 4 hours. Fearing the worst, I panicked because I had not made a backup in a long time. After it came back up, it was the first thing I did w/ the WP backup plugin.

The one thing this article didn’t cover was – what to do with the backup. My day job is in IT, backing up several places is key. Keep a local copy on your computer and another on an external hard drive if you have one.

What I’ve been doing is sending the backup copy of my site(s) to my Gmail account using the Gmail Space add-on for Firefox. Once in Gmail I use a filter to put it into a “website backups” archived area. If my server goes down and my home computer dies, I still have a copy of the website floating out there in the land of Google.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:50:52 +0000

Michiel, send me an email and I will try to help you out over IM.

By: Michiel

Michiel — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:19:54 +0000

Still don’t know how to do this.
I’m not familiar with all the expressions, you see.

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:47:43 +0000

I use the plugin to automatically backup my stuff every day. 🙂

By: SteveL

SteveL — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:27:56 +0000

Jeremy, it’s my preferred backup. I can watch it download, and store it on my own drive.

Blue Host makes it a breeze via the Control Panel to upload either the whole directory or just the database.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:54:37 +0000

SteveL – That is what i do for my sites. works like a charm

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:13:37 +0000

P.C., good point :).

By: P.C.

P.C. — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:43:29 +0000

Great tips. Just don’t forget to backup all your computer files too, especially if that’s where you’re storing your blog backups!

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:03:28 +0000

I use the WordPress Database Backup plugin to automatically back up daily. The zipped database file is emailed to my gmail account, in case my computer crashes.

I back up my site files via FTP once a week by using the same backup program that I use to back up my computer. All those files are saved on an external hard drive.

I like automation, no need to use the brain to remember 🙂

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:13:23 +0000

SteveL, I never used that feature, but I guess it should work as well.

By: SteveL

SteveL — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:12:46 +0000

What do you think about backing up your database and home folder from your Internet host?

I use Blue Host, and their control panel makes both a snap.

By: Genesis

Genesis — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:45:17 +0000

I learned this one the hard way when I lost one of my blogs by accident and my last backup was 3 weeks earlier! Luckily my host did have backups for the week before, so I managed to save most of the information (the rest I got off my feed reader which has my blogs on it). But now I do twice weekly backups!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:03:11 +0000

Bushido, I think you would be safer making a backup of the whole database. Apart from posts, it will also carry the comments and other tables required for plugins.

Patrick, good one, exactly what I was looking for!

By: Bushido

Bushido — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:48:10 +0000

Doesn’t WordPress have an option in the wp-admin menu that allows you to export all your posts to an XML file? You can the import that file from the same wp-admin menu and get all your posts back if you should lose them. I’m not really sure, though if it does the same to your comments as well.

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:47:36 +0000

I run a script every 24 hours to back up the whole database and send it by email to my gmail account, the link to the script is here (its free):

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:47:13 +0000

“you can often go into Google’s cache of your blog and recover it there.”

Very good point, hopefully the Google Bot visits often.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:45:57 +0000

I think the best guideline wouldn’t be to back up ever week, but every few posts. The point, after all, is not to lose important data. Comments are nice and all, but it’s the posts you really don’t want to lose. I say back up after posting anything that took you more than a few hours to produce, be that a single evergreen post or several smaller ones.

It’s also worth noting that, should you suffer a mishap and lose a post or two that you don’t have backed up, you can often go into Google’s cache of your blog and recover it there.

By: dEEPAK

dEEPAK — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:40:09 +0000

yup Daniel.. I backup my database too..
And Jeremy has a good point here about database backup every 2 days..

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:36:36 +0000

Jeremy, yeah I should probably backup the database every couple of days or so. I am trying to setup an automatic backup for DBT, will keep you guys updated.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:29:11 +0000

On top of backing up your whole blog at least once a week, I’d also recommend backing up just your database data at least every two days. It really comes in handy if you get in a copyright dispute with someone.

Plus think about it, if you server gets hacked and you only back up the database once a week, you may have to roll back an entire week. That can be really painful by itself, but imagine if one of those lost posts got Dugg.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:26:56 +0000

dEEPAK, notice that saving the site files alone will not backup your database. I think you know that though.

By: dEEPAK

dEEPAK — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:24:18 +0000

Actually I’ve set a reminder on my cell phone to backup my blog 🙂