Posted on September 22, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton
3 plugins to backup your WordPress blog. Love your database!
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WordPress, the blogging platform we all know and love is used by almost everyone from main stream media such as CNN, MTV to universities such as Arkansas at Little Rock to celebrities such as Perez Hilton. Wordpress is also used by leading tech blogs such as Mashable, TechCrunch and Gigaom . Installing a self-hosted version of WordPress.org is very simple and a lot of web hosting providers offer one click installs, but what about a backup? Most web hosting services offers daily backups of your files and I hope for your sake a daily back up of your sql / mysql WordPress database. But just in case they don’t here are three WordPress plugins to back up your WordPress database.
1. WP-DBManager
Pitch: 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.
2. WordPress Automatic Online Backup
Pitch: You can prevent loss of data using an automated backup of your blog database. You create a free account on www.wordpressbackup.com (wpb), connect your blog with the wbp via a key.
3. WordPress Database Backup
Pitch: WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.
Bonus: Two of the plugins offer the ability to have your database emailed to you on a scheduled time. I recommend creating an alternative gmail or ymail email address and use one of the plugins to email you a backup of your database daily.
How are you backing up your self hosted WordPress blog?
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September 22, 2009
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TwitterFools said:
We’ve used the WP-DBManager for some time now and really appreciate that we can schedule an automatic back up which is then emailed to us. It has been a reliable tool. The other options are new to us and worth investigating. Thanks for sharing.
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September 22, 2009
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Wayne Sutton said:
No problem, thanks for the comment.
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September 22, 2009
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Justin Ruckman said:
Have you ever found a good automated solution for making backups of the WordPress files?
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September 22, 2009
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Wayne Sutton said:
Justin, nope. About once a month or so I’ll just transfer my files via ftp. I think I could schedule that on my mac using a script though.
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September 22, 2009
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jeffisageek said:
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September 22, 2009
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mrgadgets said:
RT @jeffisageek: 3 plugins to backup your WordPress blog. Love your database! http://ff.im/-8yNxQ
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September 23, 2009
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SmugBaldy said:
@Justin – since I do a lot of wordpress sites, I’ve run into this issue. The main way I keep things straight is that I keep copies of each site on my local workstation , and treat the files on the web as throw-away copies. I also use subversion to do my version control, so I never really have to worry about losing the php customizations I make. The things that tend to change the most on the php side are some theme files and maybe plug-in customizations. Keep track of those, a list of your plug-ins, and your database back-ups and you can pretty much recreate your WP blog in a matter of minutes – even on a brand new server.
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