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How to backup your website or blog

by Patrick Altoft on July 13, 2007

Daniel at Daily Blog Tips has a tip today about backing up your blog that I wanted to expand on slightly.

Most of you will be able to use the Wordpress backup plugin but for BlogStorm I don’t use Wordpress so have to use another script.

The script I use is Backup2Mail and it is quite simple to install. The script sends a backup email every 24 hours (or however often you run the cron) to your gmail account.

If you don’t have a backup system in place for your files and database you need to start thinking about it.

Thanks to Online Backup Technology for showing me this tip.

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infonote 13 Jul 2007 at 8:33 pm

I backup the DB ok. I am however looking for a script that will backup every x number of days the wordpress folder i.e. themes, plugins etc.

Any ideas?

Patrick Altoft 13 Jul 2007 at 9:40 pm

Not sure really, I tend to rely on my host and my PC for file backups. Anything on my server is on my PC as well which has a backup.

sandossu 14 Jul 2007 at 2:42 am

That’s one of the best plugins i’ve ever seen, because i’m very lazy, i have many blogs and i find it hard to backup them manually.

Now i just have to get out of this laziness and install the plugin on them all.

Daniel Scocco 14 Jul 2007 at 11:54 am

Patrick, very cool indeed. Thanks for mentioning it. I am lazy as well, so this will solve the trouble.

Armand 04 Mar 2009 at 3:17 am

Thanks for sharing, automatic backup is a good solution, so we can focus to our blog instead of the back up process.

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