The Two Easiest Option for Backing Up Your Blog
Losing an entire is not (touch wood) something I have yet had to endure.
The thought of it does make me break out in a cold sweat though - the postential of losing years of posts isn’t something I relish.
The problem for bloggers traditionally has been that “back up your database” to a non tech person sounds something remotely similar to Swahili. I mean how the hell do you do that? Blogging is supposed to be simple!
Luckily there are a couple of really simple solutions available to people who aren’t so tech savvy.
The first is the Wordpress Database Backup Plugin - this installs as like any normal plugin on your blog and is really intuitive to use. In fact, Tubetorial has a 5 minute video on installing and using this plugin that is well worth the time to watch. If you have a recent version of Wordpress installed, then it should already be in the plugins option - you just need to activate it. If not, then you can still download it from here.
The other option, which is great if you are totally technically illiterate is a site called Blog Backup Online which is really easy to sign up to and get your blog backed up. The only glitch I found is that one of my blogs only offered partial feeds and Blog Backup Online backs up using the XML feed, so only those excerpts were being backed up (rather than the full content), so make sure you change your settings from your Options>>Reading menu in your Wordpress Login to offer full feeds. Now, I still think the above plugin is better option, but as I said, if you are a total technical incompetent then this is a great service.
So go backup everything and stay safe!
I do backups on my external drive, but it must be good to have an off site backup.
July 11th, 2007 at 5:46 amBeen using the DB Backup Plug for a while but am still looking for a detailed waterproof how to for moving your blog to a different server…
July 25th, 2007 at 10:03 amHeh, thanks a lot.. I was about to backup my blog and was wondering how to do it
August 5th, 2007 at 11:41 pmI don’t backup my blog as often as I should be, I need to set up an automated solution so I don’t really have to think about it at all.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:11 pmThanks for a good article.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 pmIt has always been interesting to learn how to make a copy of my blog.
Thank you!!!
Anything for us poor Losers that use Blogger!!
;))
I assume Google would Back them Up*
One tool I do use + Love is Website Downloader*
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:19 amIt’s so true that a good backup is vitally important and as the amount of data on your blog grows, the importance of the backup also grows.
It’s also important to remember that not only should you be backing up, but periodically, you should try and restore your backup on a test site to ensure that what you did backup was correct and will restore correctly.
The last thing you would want is for a site to have a complete failure and when you try the restore, you notice that the backup was invalid.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:28 pm