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Backing up your WordPress database with WP-DB-Backup

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  1. Ryan Rampersad (9 comments.) says:

    I really love having a gmail account for each blog I run and using WP-DB-Backup to send those backups automatically. I download one from MySQL and one from WordPress as XML every week too in addition to that. This is a great tip and I absolutely recommend it to everyone.

  2. JLeuze (12 comments.) says:

    Great recommendation Klint, WP-DB-Backup is the one essential plugin that I add to each WordPress install I do.

    Most of the sites I do are for small businesses and consist of mostly Pages which don’t change very often. So I generally go for weekly backups to keep my gmail account from filling up too fast.

    One handy tip for using gmail to store database backups is to setup a filter which labels the backups, marks them as read, and archives them so that you don’t have to mess with them unless you need them later.

  3. Dana (3 comments.) says:

    I used it before, but not anymore. I choose to use phpmyadmin to do backup now.

  4. Nicholas Teo (37 comments.) says:

    i am using this plugin now and I love it. Its simple and easy to use.

  5. DB Ferguson (8 comments.) says:

    I like this plugin, it seems to work well. However, there’s one irksome problem. There’s this big red warning at the top of my blog that says Your backup folder MIGHT be visible to the public. To correct this issue, move the .htaccess file from …” Well, I moved the .htaccess file, and I’m still getting the error message. I don’t know how to make it go away, and make sure that I made the modifications necessary. Any ideas?

  6. Andrew@BloggingGuide (63 comments.) says:

    Like Ryan,I also love having a gmail account. It can be used in a lot of “Google” things like this one, google analytics, google keyword tool and many others. Thanks for this update.

  7. Janio Sarmento (1 comments.) says:

    Pretty good!

    But what about restoring a backup of those? Could you lead me to the tutorial on restoring a WP databae?

    Thanks.

  8. quicoto (39 comments.) says:

    I use WP-DBManager coolest plugin for backing up the data base.

    Regards

  9. Claude says:

    I don’t understand the need for plugins to generate backups. Why not just backup the entire DB onto a non-public folder?

    /usr/bin/mysqldump -h your.db.host -u user -ppassword --databases my_blog_db >~/MySQL-backups/my_blog_db_dump-`date +"%Y%m%d"`.sql

    Then you can easily restore the whole thing in a single step should you be hacked or end up with a corrupted installation.

  10. Stefan Nilsson says:

    Have you tried the new backup plugin named “WordPress Backup to Dropbox” by Michael Dewildt. I use Dropbox regularly for my most important information and therefore it would be a good idea to collect all of it in one place. I like the idea but would love to hear you approve it before installing and ending up without backup.

  11. Mikael U (3 comments.) says:

    Have you tried using Backupbuddy? I use it extensively on any of my blog. Backupbuddy combined with an Amazone S3 account do give me a sense of security atleast.



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