When Did You Last Backup Your WordPress?

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Don’t for­get we are only half way through WordPress Backup Week.

WordPress is cel­eb­rat­ing blog secur­ity and pro­tec­tion with WordPress Backup Week July 23 – 30.

WordPress, one of the most pop­u­lar blog­ging and web­site man­age­ment tools, is spon­sor­ing WordPress Backup Week July 23 – 30. Step-by-step backup instruc­tions will be avail­able in the online manual, the WordPress Codex, and online in the WordPress Sup­port Forum to help you through the process.

There is lots of help on the WordPress Backup page, cov­er­ing com­mon host­ing con­trol pan­els like cPanel, Ensim, Plesk, and many more. It also cov­ers using phpMy­Ad­min and other, sim­pler, meth­ods. Lots of links to resources too. It’s worth a read, even if you have a backup routine, to make sure you are cov­er­ing everything. You might pick up a use­ful tip to do it more efficiently.

Read on for the full press release.

WordPress is cel­eb­rat­ing blog secur­ity and pro­tec­tion with WordPress Backup Week July 23 – 30.

WordPress, one of the most pop­u­lar blog­ging and web­site man­age­ment tools, is spon­sor­ing WordPress Backup Week July 23 – 30. Step-by-step backup instruc­tions will be avail­able in the online manual, the WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org), and online in the WordPress Sup­port Forum (http://www.wordpress.org/support) to help you through the process.

Your data­base con­tains every post, every com­ment and every link you have on your blog. If your data­base gets erased or cor­rup­ted, you stand to lose everything you have writ­ten. There are many reas­ons why this could hap­pen and not all are things you can con­trol. But what you can do is backup your data, after all, it is import­ant isn’t it? Mak­ing backups is essen­tial because prob­lems inev­it­ably occur and you need to be in a pos­i­tion to take action when dis­aster strikes. Spend­ing a few minutes to make an easy, con­veni­ent backup of your data­base will allow you to spend even more time being cre­at­ive and pro­duct­ive with your web site.

Back­ing up your WordPress data­base has never been easier with WordPress plu­gins which allow you con­trol over how, what, and when you backup, even email­ing your data­base backups to you — all pain free. Doc­u­ment­a­tion is avail­able to take you through the step-by-step pro­cess, as well, for back­ing up your WordPress site and data­base with cPanel, vDeck, Dir­ectAd­min, Plesk, and others.

For your own pro­tec­tion and secur­ity, and peace of mind, join us in learn­ing how to backup and pro­tect our valu­able data and writ­ings dur­ing WordPress Backup Week. Con­sider using this Backup Week as an incent­ive to backup all your valu­able doc­u­ments and soft­ware, too.

9 thoughts on “When Did You Last Backup Your WordPress?”

  1. There’s con­tra­dict­ory backup info in the codex…

    http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
    Check the “Com­plete inserts” box and “hex for bin­ary fields”

    …but yet another page in the codex says to leave these unchecked:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
    “Leave the boxes inside this sec­tion unticked, but make sure to keep the check­box next to the “DATA” head­ing checked.”

    So which is it??? This has me worried.

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  2. I backed up my data­base fol­low­ing the instruc­tions from the WordPress wiki. Ques­tion, I am using cPanel, so couldn’t I just use the ‘backup’ fea­ture via cPanel without going into phpMy­Ad­min or the MySQL area? Is there a dif­fer­ence? Just curious.

    But thanks for the reminder. Hope­fully I backed everything up prop­erly and will remem­ber to do it on a reg­u­lar basis. :)

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  3. I found that it was much easier to install the Backup plu­gin and WP-Cron (for nightly backups to my e-mail). For the first time in my life, I’m actu­ally back­ing up on a reg­u­lar basis (as opposed to sal­va­ging data after an HD crash).

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  4. Every­body is talk­ing about hoe import­ant backup of data is. If it is (and I am sure, it is), why is there no func­tion in WordPress that auto­mat­ic­ally makes a backup every day or after every new data inser­ted to the data­base and mails that backup­file to the admin? Maybe this would be a big improve­ment for Wp 1.6!

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  5. There are plug­gins that do backup yor wordpress site for you :)

    I tend to backup my whole site monthly, and my host does data­base backups nightly. The only prob­lem with this is that while i backup my site goes down because the backup sites on the drive and the server thinks i have over­filled my account. but then i down­load it and delete it off the server and everythings peachy again :)

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  6. PJ, You know, you can register on the Codex and make those changes your­self. Or you can add a com­ment on the ‘talk’ pages. As to which is cor­rect, I per­son­ally always use com­plete inserts, but there is no real reason to prefer one over the other if you don’t need to run the dump against another (non-MySQL) data­base. And WordPress doesn’t store ant bin­ary data so that check box doesn’t apply.

    Sta­cey, I’m not sure whether cPanel’s backup includes the mysql data. It also would be more dif­fi­cult to restore your WordPress blog if it’s backup was part of the backup for your whole site.

    Mar­tin, I’m sur­prised that solu­tion wasn’t men­tioned as I remem­ber it being raised dur­ing the mail­ing list dis­cus­sions about WP Backup Week.

    Lothar, there has been talk of adding a 1-click backup to ver­sion 1.6 of WordPress.

    Every­one, don’t for­get that the sup­port for­ums is still your best source for help and timely advice on all things WordPress.

    Mike

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