Comments on: WordPress Backup 101 – Getting Your WordPress Backup Tools In Place

By: WordPress Backup 101 – Staying On Top Of It All

WordPress Backup 101 – Staying On Top Of It All — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:10:54 +0000

[...] WordPress As I promised in my previous post on the WordPress Backup Tools, I have put together some information on how to organize your new WordPress Blog backups now that [...]

By: Tom McEwin

Tom McEwin — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:27:53 +0000

Hi Cemil. Backing up is important to do and easy to put off, but thanks to your prompting I’ve now got the plugin installed and have scheduled wordpress backups running. Gotta love automation.

Looking forward to your next posts on this topic, particularly how to restore a blog from a wordpress backup (just in case!).

By: Cemil | Online Business Blackbook

Cemil | Online Business Blackbook — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:41:33 +0000

Thanks everyone for your feedback. Just wanted to share my experience and hopefully help others out there avoid such a painful situation.

By: Cemil | Online Business Blackbook

Cemil | Online Business Blackbook — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:39:58 +0000

Hi Jan,
The size of the file really depends on the number of posts and pages that you have on your blog (both published and draft) and the number of words, characters, etc used. My backups are currently about half a MB, and while this will grow over time many ISP’s and Webmail providers give very generous email storage limits these days so you will be hard pressed to run out of space

As far as deleting previous backups, if you are backing up once a week, perhaps clean out your mailbox of the old backups every 6 months or so, otherwise maybe more frequently if you are performing daily backups.

By: Jan Littlehales

Jan Littlehales — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:06:34 +0000

Hey Cemil – I’v e added this plugin to all my websites. One question, if I elect to have back up sent to an email (as you suggest) how big is the file? and I guess it’s best to get in the habit of deleting previous back ups? Thank you!!

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:03:24 +0000

Useful info. Cemil – it can be very frustrating losing something you’ve put a lot of effort into, not to mention costly if your site is generating income.

By: Richard Colum

Richard Colum — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:19:38 +0000

You have gone to a lot of trouble here thanks for the input i will follow your lead. Cheers again for the help.

By: David Moloney

David Moloney — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:23:27 +0000

Hi Cemil, Sad to hear that you suffered a catastrophic failure. Thanks for sharing your lessons learnt so that we can all avoid a crash happening to us. I’ve set a Google Alert to backup my files once a week. You successfully nudged and prodded me into action.