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How Often Should You Backup Your Blog?

September 24, 2007

Mara sent in this excellent question,

“How often should you do a thorough backup of a blog? I have the backup that Wordpress has set up to backup daily. However, I’m sure there’s something I should do with all the rest of it, right?”

I commend you for taking action to back up your blog. It wasn’t so difficult right?

How often depends how active your blog is. If you post daily or several times a day every day, then daily is probably right. But if your posting schedule is weekly, there is no reason to put that load on your web server. So a weekly backup schedule works.

The key thing to know is, don’t wait too long between each backup. If you post daily, then a weekly backup schedule won’t help you so much. It will still be better than no backup, but the idea is to try to grab the freshest data as possible. Matching your backup schedule to your posting schedule is probably the best.

What else should you do? Backup the WordPress files itself. In particular, the wp-config.php file and the wp-content folder. The Database Backup Plugin only grabs your data (content) but not the themes (design). If you have done a lot of work to your theme or installed a lot of plugins - and most of us have - , it’s wise to keep a copy of it.

How to do it? This video will help you out. Keep those questions coming in.

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Lynette Chandler is a mompreneur who has a knack for teaching other entrepreneurs about the technology and how to recognize and apply its power and trends to their marketing. Lynette brings to the table a marketing career of sixteen years as well as four years of experience doing technical management. She is the owner of TechBasedMarketing.com and is a married mother of 3, living in Eastern North Carolina.

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4 Responses to “How Often Should You Backup Your Blog?”

  1. Darlene Hull on September 26th, 2007 10:30 am

    Wow, this is good advice. I never think about backing up my stuff. I guess I should. I seem to just “trust” the system, but that appears to be a very dangerous thing. I will DEFINITELY look in to this!

    Darlene

  2. Mara B. on September 26th, 2007 9:46 pm

    Thank you for such a great response, Lynette. I’ll have to check out the video and then do some more backing up.

  3. Heidi on October 31st, 2007 9:59 pm

    I was wondering how you back up if you have a blogger blog. I had one of my blogs shut down by them and have never gotten it back up again. I tried wordpress but was never able to figure it out. It was incredibly confusing and I didn’t even get it opened. Blogger is comfortable for me but I’m leary of using it for fear that all will be lost if they decide to shut it down. then I lose everything.

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