Backup Your Website Automatically
January 29, 2009 ·
My new year’s resolution is to make sure I send test emails to myself before publishing posts. I upgraded my newsletter today and sent it to you all on the default template. Sorry, this should look more like me.
Hopefully you are already doing it but if not imagine how you’d feel if you something happened to the server your website lives on and all your website content, carefully written blog posts, comments and subscriber database were all gone.
Make Your 2009 New Year’s Resolution to backup your website on a regular basis.
You can do this manually or use the WordPress Database Backup Plugin which you set to email you backup automatically at regular durations. The beauty of the plugin method (apart from not letting you forget) is that it will also backup:
- Your Email Newsletter subscriber database.
- Your Next Generation Photo Galleries
- Your WordPress E-Commerce shop
Setup Your Automatic WordPress Backup(see screenshot on right)
- Download the Database Backup Plugin
- Upload to your plugins folder using ftp
- Activate on your WordPress website
- Go to Manage/Backup
- Select how often your would like to backup your site.
- Select whether you’d like the backup files emailed and the email address
- Tick the extra information you would like included in the backup such as photo galleries, e-commerce shop and email subscribers list.
- Save your settings.
If anything goes wrong, your website host will be able to reload your files using the backup file you provide them.
Backing Up Your WordPress site Manually
This creates an XML file for you to save to your computer. The file contains your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. The only way to get the information from this file is import it into another WordPress website.
- Login in to your WordPress admin
- Select Mangage/Export
- Click on the Download Export File Button
- Save the file to your computer
Ready to Use Blog Post Backup
Any easy way to make sure you always have ready-to-use copies of all your blog posts or articles is to include your own email address on your subscriber database.
If you don’t have access to ftp and would like me to upload the Backup Plugin to your website, please send me an email.
Happy New Year
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I find your WordPress backup plugin really interesting. One lesson I’ve learned not to long ago in just how important backups are – Few months ago our web host SiteFusion3000 has gone out of business – Our site along with the contents vanished of the Internet. We had to recreate the whole thing all over again and waste 5 weeks and almost 3k on rebuilding from scrach. The blog portion of it was almost exclusively WordPress.
Although I do I highly recommend using an automated backup solution to make sure these backups are automatically done. Or at least do periodical backups. At this point I use http://www.websitebackup.ca for mirroring entire website on weekly basis. I guess the lesson is simple If you are running a web based business (WordPress or not) you should always make sure you have a backup – I do not count on your web host staying in business.
Cheers, Carson