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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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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Posted by ZMAng

Filed under Guides, Plugins, WordPress

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