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IDrive for WordPress Released

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  1. Jérémie says:

    “Javascript enabled web browser”

    I wonder what kind of technological marvelty (yup, that’s a new word) would *REQUIRE* the use of javascript to copy some files.

    • TheTick (2 comments.) says:

      I imagine that requirement is to be able to sign up at the iDrive site.

  2. Krishna says:

    Will that allow me to transfer the site/hosting ? To do this I assume, first I would have to install wordpress in the site-to-be/hosting-to-be, include this plugin and do a restore. If it can’t do that then, probably I reckon only a few steps are remaining towards that end; and that would make it a free alternative to the paid ‘backupbuddy’ wordpress plugin.

  3. Steve says:

    Javascript is required for backup configuration process and not for the actual backup itself.

    IDrive Support.

  4. Richard Hay (14 comments.) says:

    As of 0445 this morning – 3200 files are backed up with about 4200 left.

    Pretty slow backup process so far.

    • Steve says:

      Initial backup may take some time depending on amount of data; Incremental backup should be significantly faster. In addition, the bandwidth used for backup is throttled so as to not to impact the site usage.

      IDrive Support.

      • Richard Hay (9 comments.) says:

        Steve – thanks for stopping by and offering the info. Can you discuss the fact that my initial backup and others only copied part of the identified files?

        My initial ID’d 7400 files but only backed up 3200.

        The first incremental I did ID’d 8 and backed up 8.

        That initial back appears to not finish and there is not completion in the logs either.

        Appreciate the info/feedback.

  5. Andrew (1 comments.) says:

    Yeah tried this one, but gave up on it as it never finished backing up my site. Stopped at around 400 files out of 4000.

  6. Richard Hay (9 comments.) says:

    Well the status on that initial backup has not changed. It backed up 3,240 files out of 7,460 that were potential backup candidates on that initial backup.

    I browsed my backup directory on IDrive and everything is backed up so I am guessing it did the job.

    Just ran another backup just to see what happens and it update 8 of the files so incremental works fine as well.

    Anyone else try it out?

  7. Blaine Moore (1 comments.) says:

    I’ve been pondering moving my site to a new host…this might be a good opportunity to test backing up a live site and restoring to a test server (pre-production, anyway) to see how well the entire process works.

    Will let you know my results once I get around to it.

  8. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

    I never did understand why people have to make backing up a blog so difficult? just do an SQL dump to a file on your computer using phpmyadmin. thats all the backup you could ever want. whats so hard about that? 119 plugins for backup when 1 simple command accomplishes the same task in less then a milisecond *shrugs*

    • Milan (5 comments.) says:

      Backing up website doesn’t mean to backup just database, there are other parts of website too (in WP case: uploads, plugins, themes etc)
      Do you make backup after every post/page you post/make draft, after every comments is made etc? You certainly don’t make dumps every day at specific time. Plugins should enable automatic backup so you don’t have to do this manually nonstop.
      Except when you use a dedicated server or VPS, you don’t have a command line access on most shared hostings

      I hope that this explains you why “people make backing up a blog so difficult”.

  9. Hikari (26 comments.) says:

    I use automysqlbackup.sh.2.5 for scheduled backups and MySqlDumper for controled backups.

    Works fine for me, I just wasn’t able to make automysqlbackup mails backups to me.

    But these database-oriented storage are great

  10. roger says:

    Okday,

    so I’ve created my idrive account on idrive website. Logged in and everything seemed all right.

    Then I’ve installed the wordpress plugin without any problem.

    Last I tried to login with the wordpress plugin and I can’t. It just refuse my credentials. Tried again on the original website and it worked. So I guess the plugin is fucked up…

    • Richard Hay (14 comments.) says:

      Roger,

      Plugin works fine here for me and credentials work on both the web site and the plugin login.

      I am sure you have tried this but verify that username and password 100% to be sure the same data that you use on the web is used on the plugin.

      Can I also ask a personal favor? Could you find an alternative adjective to describe what you feel is up with the plugin that is not so abrasive and jarring?

      I appreciate it.

      Rich

      • roger says:

        Richard,

        Sorry for the adjective, I didn’t meant to be rude. I’m french and I learned most of my english in some cables tv shows and I thought it wasn’t that bad…

        So, I’ve just tried it again and it still doesn’t works.

        I can send you my credentials if you wann try them yourself.

        Thanks

        • Richard (1 comments.) says:

          Hi,

          I had the some problem. You can’t use your idrive windows account for the wordpress plug in. You must create a new idrive account directly from the wordpress plug in page. this way it works fine.

  11. Nihar (7 comments.) says:

    Great!

    Looks like a very good plugin from IDrive.

    Will install it and test it out

  12. Andrew@BloggingGuide (90 comments.) says:

    Sounds like their are issues with this plugin. At least for now I am satisfied with my backup plan. I hope the issues will be resolved so that I won’t have qualms in the future if ever I do want to try this out.

  13. Sohbet (1 comments.) says:

    Sorry for the adjective, I didn’t meant to be rude. I’m french and I learned most of my english in some cables tv shows and I thought it wasn’t that bad…

    So, I’ve just tried it again and it still doesn’t works.

    I can send you my credentials if you wann try them yourself.

    Thank you..

  14. joecr (20 comments.) says:

    One thing you missed is that you can’t select Windows for the OS of the account you want to back up. If you do you will get the following error. “Error: You are trying to log-in using an IDrive for Windows account. IDrive Plug-in for WordPress does not support IDrive for Windows accounts. Please click on the Create New IDrive Account button below to create a new IDrive account for WordPress. “

    • Mal (1 comments.) says:

      the lack of Windows as an OS makes this plugin almost useless for me. I set up a Windows account because nothing was said about it being restricted to Mac OS, added my contact list for the extra 10Gb and then discovered the IDrive account was useless. Created Mac OS account which means nothing will run on my Windows desktop and when I ran the plugin it just stuck at “initialising” with no way to ever check which files have been transferred. Useless to me.



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