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The Importance Of Backing Up Your Blog
ackups in every computing or to a different one, not a
endeavor just make good device; or you can burn data to
sense. Without your good, CDs (replacing these every year
reliable backups, you're likely or two, as we now know they
to go through the hell of data degrade over time). And backing
loss and the frantic rush to up is simple as well as easy to
recover everything at least once automate.
and probably more than that in
your lifetime. Data loss can While there are online archives
happen for many reasons: the and caches that can help you
degradation of a hard drive, an recover your blog data if you
upgrade, a hostile hacker, even a work fast, it's still a better
catastrophic power surge. idea to ensure that you have the
Whatever the reason, it happens backup to begin with. For one
even to the best systems. thing, recovering blog data from
other sources can never replace
According to a recent poll your file structure or any of the
sponsored by Maxtor, though, alterations you may have made to
almost half of U.S. computer your blog system. For another,
users don't back up data to your most recent posts and
external devices. Most don't do comments will still be lost. In
it because they aren't sure about some cases, this can be a major
how to back files up. Another blow.
large group doesn't think it's
important enough to worry about. Once you get into the habit,
Others don't want to spend the backing up your blog becomes
time on it, or think that backup second nature, not a hassle. You
devices cost too much money. should back up at regular
These aren't good reasons; you intervals, making it a habit or
can back up to your own computer finding a way to automate it. You
should also back up everything blog hosts. For MySQL solutions,
just before you do an upgrade or you'll need to know what you're
otherwise work with your blog doing with that program as well
system directly. This way, if as with WordPress, and you will
anything goes wrong, it's not almost certainly have to download
hard to restore your database and some extras from the MySQL
other files from the backups. website.
There are a variety of things you In one other case, you may need a
can do to create a backup. For different solution. If you're
instance, phpMyAdmin is a popular using Mac OS X, you should
choice for many bloggers, consider using Cocoa MySQL as
including those who use your MySQL client; this version
WordPress. phpMyAdmin uses a of SQL is specifically designed
simple menu-driven system to back to work with Mac computers.
up your WordPress databases
(though it may not catch your The WordPress Database Backup
special modifications and certain Plugin
standalone files, and your file
structure and images are also The above solutions are inelegant
high and dry). and often complex to use.
Fortunately, Skippy has created a
For very large databases, plugin for WordPress users that
straight MySQL code may be will do the backup work for you
necessary; phpMyAdmin can't on WordPress databases. This
handle the largest databases. plugin is included in all
This involves using a special WordPress versions from 2.0
command, mysqldump, or going to forward, or you can download it
the graphical interface MySQL from the Administrator, provided by many href="http://Skippy.net"
title="http://Skippy.net"
target="_blank">http://Skippy.net Once all your options are
plugins page from the selected, click the Backup button
wp-db-backup files. to perform the backup. If you've
got the wp-Chron plugin
If you need to download the installed, you can even set it to
plugin, be certain to follow the backup your files every day, or
directions in the included text at an interval you prefer. The
file so you're certain of backup you will have created is a
installing the plugin properly. standard SQL file. It should be
To activate it, make sure that simple to follow directions for
the CHMOD is set properly on your restoring your SQL database from
wp-content folder so that you can backup.
write to it with the server, and
then go to the Administration Backing Up - More Information
Plugins Plugins Panel to
activate the plugin. The frequency of your backups
should depend on how often you
Backing up your files with this blog and how much irreplaceable
plugin is simple. You navigate to data you could lose in case of
the Administration Manage failures. If you only post once a
Backup Panel. Then select all week and don't really care if you
tables in addition to your main lose a week's worth of comments
WordPress tables that you want on your posts, a weekly backup
backed up. Select the option for should be fine. If you're more
where to back up; your choices worried about losing daily data,
will be to save the backup to the you should back up every day. If
server, to download the files to at all possible, automate your
another computer, or to email the backups so you don't have to
backed up files somewhere else. worry about missing one.
this can be a real problem if you
When you back up your databases, email your backups to yourself
be certain you back up everything and sometimes even if you just
possible. Special modifications download them or pay for that
done to your WordPress files of server space. Statistics plugins
any sort may be as irreplaceable and anti-spam plugins may be your
as a dozen posts, but may not be culprits. These plugins gather
captured when you back up data constantly, and may increase
databases. Check with your the size of your backup beyond
administrator if you're not what is acceptable. Because this
certain what else should be data is not usually critical, try
protected; he or she will have a skipping these tables when you're
very good idea. backing up and see how your size
comes out.
Sometimes you'll find that you
have enormous database backups;
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