Comments on: How To Easily Auto Backup Your WordPress Database

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Great post. Backing up is so important because we know that we can’t get the valuable time or inspiration back 100% once it’s lost. It’s an agonizing feeling. I’m a co-founder of a company called Page.ly that provides nightly backups for our WordPress customers. We keep agony away.

By: TechHelpSite

TechHelpSite — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:38 +0000

Like Jay I have mine set to send to my Gmail account – saved forever

Amit and others – what is the best way to set up an automated/regular back up of the all files via ftp? Do ftp clients have scheduling capability?
off to check Filezilla now

By: Dean Sherwin

Dean Sherwin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:37:08 +0000

So the actual download won’t work or you can’t get it to work on your blog.

If it’s the download then make sure your browser isn’t blocking the download. See if you have the pop-up blocker on. Normally under Tools>options

-Dean

By: evelyn

evelyn — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:31:37 +0000

i try to download it but it cound not work, could u tell me why?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:36:44 +0000

I actually restored a DB backup tonight on a failed upgrade I had. The backed up database from the WP DB backup plugin restored perfectly.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:44:45 +0000

I just spent all day yesterday asking in the forums for advice on the best way to backup.

One question… have any of you actually tried restoring from a backup, just to double check?

By: Pranshu Arya

Pranshu Arya — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:01:16 +0000

I've been using Lester Chan's DB Manager plugin for a while now, and it works pretty well. It automatically backs up my database everyday (or whenever I want) without having to manually set up a cron job.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:59:26 +0000

I use this plugin, and set to send the backup to my gmail account. Works great, unfortunately (or luckily) my blog never have any issue since I install this plugin, so I never try to restore from the backup it created

By: Jason SW

Jason SW — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:11:13 +0000

One problem with that. I think that plugin uses the wp-cron plugin to make its scheduled backup feature work, which is a bad thing, unless you have a blog that gets visitors hourly. If you have a blog that only gets visitors once in a while, though, the blog probably won’t get backed up as often as you want it to be.

By: Amit Banerjee

Amit Banerjee — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:50:41 +0000

But you should also back up the files as well as the images used in your posts via FTP for a complete backup. If you want to move to a diffrenet host, you will need the database backup as well as the image files.