Tuesday, February 20, 2007

[Wordpress] Backup your Blog!

We had a terrible scare yesterday, I accidentally deleted our blogs database :O Worse still we didn't have a recent backup. It has taken 24hrs, and we finally have it recovered after many hours of work.

Don't let this happen to you! Back up your precious blogs regularly!

For Wordpress users there is an easy to use plugin that will save a back up of your database for you and save you all the stress (we actually did have it installed..and forgot about it *blush*). Wordpress Database backup

Download the file, and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory. You will also need to change the write permission on your wp-content folder. Activate it in your blogs dashboard in the plugin section. Then go to the Manage tab, then Backup. Download the backup to your computer, or have a copy emailed to you.

Perhaps Skeezix can share some info with the Blogger users on how you can backup your blogs too.

1 comment:

Skeezix the Cat said...

I'll have to do sum reeserch becuz all my blogger files are hosted on my server, wich is bakt up awtomatikly. The most importunt thing to bak up is yer TEMPLIT. Copy it and paste into a notepad file, then save it on yer hard drive. I do this at leest a cuppul of times a munth... becuz once yoo publish it, it gits over-ritten, and then yer hozed.