Secure Server Online Backup for WordPress
We use WordPress a lot whenever we are building non-ecommerce sites for clients. It’s a perfect CMS for anybody who wants a mixture of pages and news and the latest versions are really user friendly.
One of our web design clients does online backup for large companies, financial institutions and the UK government and they have just released an Online Backup for WordPress plugin which backs up all your blog data to their secure servers (mirrored across two datacentres in the UK). Bloggers get 50MB of space for free and when you run out of space the older backups get deleted to make way for new ones.
Losing data from your blog is a disaster waiting to happen and anybody who is using WordPress simply has to have some kind of backup solution in place. Relying on your web host isn’t a wise solution unless you are specifically paying them a lot of money for a backup system.
The plugin only launched today so if you have any feedback or suggestions please post in the comments over on the plugin page. If you have any clients with WordPress sites please get them using the plugin too.
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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Superb stuff, installed it and got it up and running. I’ve been using manual backups so far but I keep forgetting to run them, and this seems a much better solution.
Yep – installed it and now using it. When I opened the account I used a trailing slash in the registration account URL name and now get this error message:
Transmission: The blogurl you are sending this backup from does not match the one registered on this account. The blogurl you are using is ‘http://seogadget.co.uk', and the specified user account is registered for blogurl ‘http://seogadget.co.uk/'.
Although the backup appears to complete successfully.
Ahh – I’ve fixed this from the account manager screen (removed the slash) and now the backup has appeared in my account. Excellent!
Yeah it’s nice but has a couple of annoying elements:
- sends you an email notification every day after backup. I want to opt out of this
- you have to delete previous backups one by one if you don’t want to go over the 50MB limit. I want to be able to select all, or most, of the previous backups and delete them in a batch.
Nice info. how do I backup my blog on blogger.com. does Blogger also have the same plugin like wordpress. or i should move my blog to wordpress?
Cheers Patrick. I’ve been agonizing over a better solution to my WordPress backup system (whch at the moment is me doing it manually!) There are plenty of for-pay services out there but none of them sound as secure as the free service you’re presenting here!
Yay – made it work.
Almost put in a trailing slash in registration account URL – but didn’t thanks to the Ricards post.
- Ingrid. Wannabe nerd