Are you Backing up your BLOG ?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by believer1984, Aug 13, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello People !

    Imagine losing all your work on your blog or even some hacker jumping at your blog. Would be scary !

    I want to ask whats the best way to abck yp your whole blog ?

    Also im with blogger !

    Please shed some light.

    Thank you in advance. :eek:
     
    believer1984, Aug 13, 2008 IP
  2. MTbiker

    MTbiker Well-Known Member

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    Blogger should have a built-in backup or "export" feature that gives you something like an XML file.

    But most self-hosted blogs (like from Wordpress.org) contain pretty much everything in a SQL database, and you can back that up via PHPMyAdmin every so often. That's the way to go.
     
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  3. mooseweb

    mooseweb Banned

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    I've just recently started my blog, so I don't have much, but all the posts I've put in contain over 20 hours of work and I would probably cry if those were lost. I backup my entire sever network daily, that's over ten 50GB harddrives.
     
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    dfourss Well-Known Member

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    With blogger you can save a copy of your xtml file. That's easy.

    What I do is subscribe to my own blog. I save all the posts in one of my email folders so, if necessary, I could recreate it. Would be tedius, I know, but better than having nothing.
     
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    niessuh Well-Known Member

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    i backup weekly. i use a plugin to automatically backup my wordpress databse. the plugin will send the backup to your email address weekly :D
     
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    Do you have the name of the plug-in? Please.
     
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    MTbiker Well-Known Member

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    desilator Peon

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    Important to backup anything you do on the web imo
     
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  9. believer1984

    believer1984 Peon

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    Ah thanx for the replies ppl. Keep them coming !:eek:

    Security is a big issue when blogging or running a website i believe.
     
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  10. deluxdon

    deluxdon Catch Me If You Can...!!!™ Staff

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    Auto Weekly backup of my all WP blogs using WP Backup Plugin. Easy to use. Blog owner must aware of that.

    DON.
     
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    noobpreneur Well-Known Member

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    Yep - amen to deluxdon :)

    WP backup is pretty helpful...
     
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