Back-Up Your Blog Day

[Yaro]

I'm just going through my back-up procedures now (hence some time to make some new forum posts) and I thought I'd send out a reminder to all you bloggers - don't forget to back-up!

Entrepreneur's Journey as we speak is being "dumped" on to my local PC and later I will make a transfer of all my back-ups to my portable MP3 player harddrive as well.

Imagine if your server died and your blog disappeared. Do you have the content ready to go to restore your blog to where it was before the server crash?

[IntuitiveMind]

I'm just going through my back-up procedures now (hence some time to make some new forum posts) and I thought I'd send out a reminder to all you bloggers - don't forget to back-up!

Entrepreneur's Journey as we speak is being "dumped" on to my local PC and later I will make a transfer of all my back-ups to my portable MP3 player harddrive as well.

Imagine if your server died and your blog disappeared. Do you have the content ready to go to restore your blog to where it was before the server crash?
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Hi Yaro, I've got a question about the wordpress back up option...
I've downloaded a back up copy to my hard drive, but don't see instructions within the wordpress dashboard as to how I'd restore it.

What does one do if the mysql database in one's hosting gets corrupted?

hmm, that's two questions, isn't it?
now it's three...

blog in question is hosted on godaddy right now, it's a wordpress.org blog, not a
subdomain.wordpress.com blog
http://software4yourmind.com


thanks
David Bruce
dave@software4yourmind.com
NLP101:Your representation of what I said is not
my representation of what I meant by saying it.
http://software4yourmind.com

[Yaro]

Hi Yaro, I've got a question about the wordpress back up option...
I've downloaded a back up copy to my hard drive, but don't see instructions within the wordpress dashboard as to how I'd restore it.

What does one do if the mysql database in one's hosting gets corrupted?

hmm, that's two questions, isn't it?
now it's three...
[/b]

Now you might want to check with the more technical people here but I'm pretty sure if you have a corrupted MySQL database there is not much you can do - it's corrupted. I'm not a data recovery expert though, so perhaps it is possible to get *something* back from.

Regarding backing up wordpress - what I do is go into my hosting control panel and do a dump of the database file directly. I can look in the dump and see all my articles which makes me comfortable that it's all there if needed. I use the built-in mySQL database manager that my host has.

In terms of using the in-built wordpress backup plugin I suggest searching the wordpress codex for support - pretty much every question about wordpress is answered in there. The codex is at - http://codex.wordpress.org/

Hope that helps!

Yaro

[Blaine Moore]

My blog content is automatically backed up every day. I use the WP-DB-Backup plugin to do the backups, and the WP-Cron plugin to email the backups to my gmail account every night. Basically, the first time somebody visits my website after midnight every day, a backup of my database is created, compressed, and then emailed to my 2GB at Google where I can recover it even if my hosting gets completely hosed.

I keep backups of my websites on my local machine at home which gets burned to DVD every month or two. Worst case scenario, I can always use a default template. The important thing is having that database backup on a completely seperate server from my local machine and from my hosting. I do not even have to remember to back it up.

[IntuitiveMind]

Now you might want to check with the more technical people here but I'm pretty sure if you have a corrupted MySQL database there is not much you can do - it's corrupted. I'm not a data recovery expert though, so perhaps it is possible to get *something* back from.

Regarding backing up wordpress - what I do is go into my hosting control panel and do a dump of the database file directly. I can look in the dump and see all my articles which makes me comfortable that it's all there if needed. I use the built-in mySQL database manager that my host has.

In terms of using the in-built wordpress backup plugin I suggest searching the wordpress codex for support - pretty much every question about wordpress is answered in there. The codex is at - http://codex.wordpress.org/

Hope that helps!

Yaro
[/b]

Thanks Yaro, what host are you using?
I'm on godaddy right now... that's what I use while I'm developing a themed site
it's cheap... maybe I'll move to host4profit... dunno

David Bruce
Tony Robbins-Total Immersion Tactic
Edison found 9,999 ways to not make a light bulb
See what it got him?
(NLP pun)
http://software4yourmind.com

[Eagle55]

Yes! Thanks for the reminder -- I was thinking about this earlier today -- and then Poof it was gone from my head....

But seeing it here - reminded me again and I just completed my backup!

Thanks

Ellie

[MichelleVan]

Originally Posted by Blaine Moore

My blog content is automatically backed up every day. I use the WP-DB-Backup plugin to do the backups, and the WP-Cron plugin to email the backups to my gmail account every night. .

The website says this about the email function:

(obsolete in WordPress 2.1+)

do you know why? I can't get an automatic email like you do?

EDITED:.... NEVER MIND! The option is in the backup plugin to email it to yourself...

EDITED: Blaine, This doesn't look as though it backs up the slq databases...? Is that correct or did I miss something? Thanks

EDITED:
NEVER MIND - I wish I knew how to delete this post!!!!

[ProBlogDesign]

I use a plugin to automatically make backups, but I only save them to the server. Occasionally I'll download one locally, but it's not a very ordered process.

I think that that is something worth changing now.