June 6th, 2006
Daily WordPress Backups with WP-Cron and GMail
We’ve heard lots about lousy hosts that suspend hosting accounts without a tinge of guilt, or good hosts with just some lousy luck – crashed servers, bombed hard disk drives or corrupted databases. I’ve even had some friends who’ve lost weeks of posts due to database problems or sheer carelessness.
So, shouldn’t every blogger, especially WordPress users, be setting daily database backups for their blogs? Perhaps there is a misconception that it would be a difficult, or at least, tedious task. Well, let me say that it isn’t, and there are in fact many easy-to-understand HOWTO guides on this subject.
Let me list a couple here:
- Daily Backups with WP-Cron, WP-DB-Backup and GMail
Yep, you can get WordPress to mail you a backup of your database every day with just two plugins. - WP Codex: Backing Up Your Database
This is more of a general tutotial on backing up your WP database, but there is a short reference to WP-Cron and scheduling daily backups somewhere down there.
So, if you haven’t already set something like this up, get your hands moving and mice clicking now.
Edit: There’s a manual cron script (i.e. no WordPress plugins required) that gets the same thing done, but allows greater customization.
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6 Comments
June 7th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
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August 6th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
[...] It would be an understatement to say that it has affected my blogging, but the only party to blame is myself. And to think I once berated WordPress users for not backing up their blogs. [...]
September 11th, 2006 at 8:35 am
[...] Backup, backup, backup. Yes, everything!I’m a strong advocate of backups. In fact, I’d expect all of you WordPress bloggers to already have setup database backups to be e-mailed to your inbox daily by now, so we move on to file backups – an oft-ignored necessity. Here we’re talking about your entire WP directory – which some control panels provide automatic backups of (e.g. cPanel). You don’t have to do this every day, but once every few months would be good. [...]
November 2nd, 2006 at 1:35 pm
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April 26th, 2007 at 4:56 am
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May 6th, 2007 at 2:59 am
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