I have met and seen so many webmasters who rely on their host’s backup system for disaster recovery. There is nothing wrong with that. But you should always have a backup for your backups. In other words, you need to have your files stored…
Backing up a WordPress site is more than installing and activating a backup plugin. In fact, if that is all you are doing, you may be in for a world of trouble. Backing up a WordPress site needs to cover two areas…
Whether you are new to WordPress or an expert, you should know that backing-up your wordpress blog is an essential step you must take after installation of your WordPress site. Not just once but regularly to prevent loss of your work after a hosting failure, hacking attack or even plugin failure…
I started using WordPress back in 2005 (version 1.5 I believe) when I acquired a web design blog, I then went on to build that blog into a huge site – At it’s peak it was serving up millions of page views per month to over half a million unique visitors, I attribute at least some of the success of it to WordPress. Back then content management systems weren’t that great…
If you’re a regular user of Google services, then Google Drive may be the most convenient way for you to back up your WordPess site. It only takes a few minutes to set up with the help of the new Google Drive for WordPress plugin. We’ll walk you through the backup process…
There is always a lot of talk about the importance of backing up your website. I could not agree more. There are MANY WordPress backup systems available but choosing the right WordPress backup system can sometimes seem like a difficult or…
With the amount of work that goes into maintaining and updating your blog it makes sense that you should regularly back up your data. Yet many blog owners forget to do this, instead relying on the automated options provided by their web hosts…
In this day and age, you can’t afford not to create multiple backups of your website to protect yourself against disasters. It is easy to assume that bad things only happen to other people. But they can happen to you too…
It’s a piece of advice that you’ll get told over and over again as a WordPress site owner, but there is a very good reason – BACKUP YOUR DATA. Even if you think you’re undertaking a simple little change, a wrong move could result in lost data or files which, without a backup, is generally…
Cloning a WordPress site for use in another location can be sometimes be a fairly involved process, requiring the use of an FTP client, phpMyAdmin, and multiple file edits. I’m excited about the Duplicator plugin, because it reduces this process to
Developer Michael Dewildt released a new plugin this week called WordPress Backup to Dropbox that will automatically create backups of your blog and upload them to your Dropbox account. About the plugin’s design and purpose…
Backing up your WordPress site isn’t simply an option; it’s a vital necessity. Some backup solutions involve mirroring or syncing your site to give you back exactly what you lost…
BackupBuddy is an automated full-site WordPress backup plugin that keeps your WordPress content safe by creating database backups and core files as well…