The Perfect Hands-Free Database Backup
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Most of us are quite lax when it comes to making regular backups of our database. It’s too much hassle, and “what are the chances it will happen to me?”
But what if your backup system happened automatically everyday, stored the backup securely on another server, and you never had to look near it?
1 – Register a New Gmail Account
Gmail offers 7GB of storage, and up to 20MB file attachments (The largest attachment size I was able to find for a free email account). It’s free and it’s completely distinct from your regular hosting, so if your host loses everything, you won’t have lost your backups.
Go to http://mail.google.com/ and hit the “Sign Up For Google Mail” button. The form only takes a minute to fill out and now you’ll have 7GB of free storage space.
2 – Install the Plugin
There are several different backup plugins out there, but we’re going to use WP-DB Manager, because it’s the one I know will work, and because you can count on it being updated with each WordPress release.
Download the plugin, upload it to your plugins folder, and activate it as usual.
You then have to browse to the wp-content/backup-db folder, and upload the .htaccess file from the plugin folder.
If the backup-db folder doesn’t exist, create it and CHMOD it to 777 (In most FTP clients, you can CHMOD a folder by right clicking it and choosing “CHMOD” or “File Attributes” etc).
3 – Configure The Settings
A “Database” link will be added to your admin panel’s main navigation. Click it, then click the “DB Options” tab.
In the Automatic Scheduling section, choose every day, Gzip Yes and enter your Gmail address. Now hit “Update Options” and you’re done.
4 – Lycos Mail, for When Your Database Is Too Big
The drawback to the method above is that you’re limited to a maximum database size of 20MB.
WordPress tends to take up very little space, and Gzipping the file will help immensely, but if your blog does grow over the 20MB limit, you’ll have to find a better email account.
In that case, try Lycos Mail. They offer 3GB of free storage, but unlimited email attachment sizes.
However, with the free version, you must login every 30 days, or they will permanently delete all of your emails. You can avoid the Lycos deletions by purchasing Account Preservation, which costs $5.95 a year (Still extremely cheap!).
Losing all of the emails in the free account is too scary a thought for me, so I’m sticking with Gmail for as long as possible.
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Michael Martin
Michael Martin is the founder of Pro Blog Design. He works as a freelance web designer, loves WordPress, and has an unhealthy addiction to smilies.
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Hmm, i’ll try it. Better get prepared by backing up the database daily. Thanks for the tips.
Having an updated database backup is very important. A lot of things can happen that can screw up everything and ruin all your hard work invested in your content. Thanks for this plugin
As simple as useful! Great! Never thought Gmail high storage may be used for that. :)
I’ve been using wp-dbmanager for all my site. It’s really helpful.
Beside backup, you can also repair and optimize the sql database without having to do it from phpmyadmin on your hosting account panel.
yeah i use this plugin..i m not such a techie person so i take hourly backup which are delivered to my mai because often i mess the things up in wordpress specially that frustrating parse eror.. :)
Its always great to have a back up! I have lost everything i worked so had for on this project, So this will be very helpful for the future Thanks!
As far as the size of the database, it would be great to delete spam comments before backing up, as they take up a ton of unnecessary room.
Agree with you, there are more & more spammer these days.
I’ve also using wp db manager plugin for almost 2 years, and it works perfectly the way I need it
you can using many plugin for database management based on wp.
like WP database Optimize
Interesting idea. Maybe I’ll set up a dedicated email account in my Google Apps system to do this…
You are right. I also use google apps for my email and setup 1 email account to receive the database backup every week, so now I’dont have to worry.
I am doing exactly this with another plugin (WordPress Database Backup) for more than a year now. It works like charm and is much simpler than the DB-Manager mentioned here.
exactly. I’m also using that plugin backing up database.
Me too
me too use it on my wpmu
Permana,
It doesn’t take long to set up, and you’ll definitely be glad when it’s done.
Adam,
That’s a good tip. I delete my spam comments each morning, just out of habit. I’ve never thought of doing it for the database though. Good idea!
Redwall,
Google Apps system? How do ya mean? :)
Michael,
Looks like a good plugin, thanks for sharing. I knew there were others that could do it, and quite possibly better!
I only used DB-Manager as the example here because it’s the one I use, so I can vouch for it working, and the plugin author has a load of plugins and updates them all regularly (And has done for years). One’s probably as good as the other. They just make backups! :)
Thanks Michael for sharing the excellent technique.
My webserver does take a backup every night automatically. But this seems like a good tip to implement in case the hosting backup fails.
Wow, this is a great plugin. TBH I rarely back up my online DB mainly because my host do it daily, but i suppose its a extra comfort knowing it will be email to me. Nice find!
I have my websites do this daily and have for a while. I also setup a filter in gmail to automatically archive it since it goes to my regular email address I use for other things, this way it’s out of my way and I never see it; but I know it’s there :)
Ankesh,
Some webhosts do a great job with their backups, but even the best can get unlucky sometimes. The database is too valuable to leave entirely to them I think.
Grant,
It’s a nice “just in case” measure to have in place. :D
Mike,
Google really do give a massive amount of email storage! I put it in a separate account for convenience sake, but they give so much space, sending it to your main account still won’t put that account in danger of crossing the limits! :D
Michael, thanks for putting this up. I need to go back and check to see whether I’ve got it right. Highly useful.
Oh man… I just installed this on both of my blogs, set everything up, and got my first email backup in about 2 minutes. This is the best thing ever! Talk about peace of mind…
Now if backing up several hundred gigs of photos was only so easy.
Easton,
Glad you found it useful!
Brian,
I know what you mean. It’s great to know that the fruits of all the long hours of work you’ve put into your blog aren’t in danger of disappearing anymore.
Not sure if this will be any use for that amount of data, but I use Syncback (The free version, about half way down the page) for my computer backups.
It only copies over files that have changed since the last backup, and can be set to run automatically each night if you want. Not hard to set up either. :D
This is a great tip, I’ve heard of people doing things similar to this but for some reason your post actually compelled me to set it up.
I can’t think of anything better )
I knew there was an easier way to backup! Thanks for the tip, at least now I know my databases are relatively safe and backed up! Now I’ll need to learn how to restore
Loosing emails is certainly crazy. Stick with Gmail, its gonna be a *long* time before db runs over 20mb. Hopefully within that time Gmail will increase their attachment limit ? :)
Michael,
Glad you did, thanks!
Pink,
Good good! Restoring is easy enough (Use the “Import” section on phpMyAdmin). And you can learn how to do that come the time, if you ever need to do it. Making the backups is the important part, so don’t worry about it. :)
Ehab,
I hope so! That would definitely solve things. :D
Wow, thanks. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. What a great post!
This is AWESOME! I’ve been manually backing up about 20 WP sites every month. You just saved me about 2 hours ad infinitum. Thanks soooo much.
Glad you found it useful screwzoo! :)
I like it. WordPress plugin really makes life much easier huh?
Now you’d better have a backup of your web server files on your local hard drive, or else… ;)
Hendry,
Very true! I used to be great at keeping that backup up to date, but with automatic plugin upgrades now, it never is. But I suppose if my only loss is that I need to reinstall a few plugins, i’ve gotten off lucky! :D
its best of plugin, this help me autobackup my database without goto phpmyadmin
This is a good method but it’s something that it’s possible to do it too often, back ups are geart but if you do them too often you don’t gain any benefits.
The idea of having daily backups is only good if a site changes every day, otherwise you’re robbing yourself of server capacity without needing it.
If you’ve got a small, not very busy blog you’ll get away with considerably less regular backups and will leave that extra capacity for, say, resizing images and serving dynamic content.
Saving a bit of CPU time is irrelevant on your home system but you still pay for it on rented hosting – the difference between too regular backups and just enough backups could be dozens of dollars a month extra in higher capacity hosting.
That’s true Stephen, but it would only really apply if you were right on the threshold of your hosting account’s limits. Backups are so crucial, I’m happy enough to make them daily to be honest. It might cost the server a little more, but you’ll be glad of it if your server ever does crash.
Very true, although packaging up an entire database is a fairly processor consuming process, I think that if an application needs backups that are hourly (or even more often, in the case of extremely critical applications) then you’re negligent not to give it the resources to do that. It’s crucial enough to be an operating requirement of the application concerned – just like there needs to be enough processor time and memory to serve pages for the program to work.
If you are hosting a blog which really doesn’t change content every day (say it’s an irregularly updated personal journal of your life and therefore doesn’t attract too many posts or too many comments) then there’s no need to update the backup everyday if the backups are going to be identical. If your blog changes even more often and you can’t risk losing any comment or post, then you could set it up backup even every hour. It’s just a question of the applications needs – backing up less than you need to is very bad practice but if you backup more than required you’re just using up cycles without getting value from them.
One of my site is very big with more than 35 thousand posts and more than 100mb database size.
Here is my backup tips using that plugin to avoid it consume too much cpu resources on shared hosting :
– Backup every 1 week
– Turn ON gzip option
– Keep maximum backup files no more than 5
You can set it on wp-dbmanager settings page
But if you concern about the backup database file size become too large to send via email, just turn off the option and you can download it manually to your local pc.
You make a great point. I think this works good for a site someone host and does not have automatic backups on hosting service and forgets to do thier own. I wonder if you could set it up to do backup weekly or monthly instead. I do not think most people even change a site daily but a blogger it would be a great idea.
Great WP plug in, amazing!
nice plugin thank you so much..
now that is an excellent example of lateral thinking. thank you. i’m off to set my google apps mail filters to receive, label and archive automatically weekly.
sweet!
That is a GREAT idea for backing up a blog, thanks so much!
thanks brother its can make me easy to backup my database every 1 days.
sometimes the hosting error or suspend, and all my data lost.
maybe im wrong to take my blog to leecher hosting :d
lets share anything to the world
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yes truely
Its can help us maintenach
Thanks
Yep! This is the way to do it. This is usually one of my first steps after install except I use the WP-DB-Backup plugin by Austin Matzko.
I use this and I love it. I set up a filter in Gmail to catch my DB’s and then label them. Its amazingly fantastic, and all done behind the scenes once a week.
That’s really good advice. Works perfectly. Love it. The htaccess file was a text file (with .txt) at the end, so you need to rename it to ‘.htaccess’ after uploading to the backup-db folder, am I right?
Thank you for your .htaccess tip. I was looking for it all over the place :)
Sounds great,I never heard the Plugin before.Thank you for sharing.
Excellent blog was very useful……
wowww….thnks…
This is a great way to do it. It’s amazing how many people run NO database backups and then freak out when something happens to their installation or database.
Great tutorial!
Backups are always a safe route to go…you never know when something very unlucky may happen!
I’ve using this plugin since my site running. It works pretty good.
I set automatic backup to every week cause I have thousands of page & more than 100mb mysql database and I don’t want to create high server load.
If you’re running light blog I think it’s fine to set automatic backup to every day.
My entire WP-Content folder was just deleted.. I’m going to find every backup plugin on the internet.. What a hassle.
Thanks alot for this great plugin tip!
What I’m wondering is if you can do an update to this post since it appears some of the items on the backup tools page/dashboard may have changed in the year plus?
Specifically, what about all those extra checkmarks for tables under
Backup > Tables > You May choose to include any of the following tables …..
as well as
Scheduled Backup > Tables to include in the scheduled backup: Click and hold down [SHIFT] to toggle multiple checkboxes
do I include and check mark all those extra boxes or just the default settings ( nothing else being checkmarked)? I’d sure appreciate any direction on this issue — thanks and cheers!
Greetings Michael –
Great article. One tip I found to even further automate this process is to setup a filter in Gmail. In my filter, I tag it “Blog Backup” and auto archive it. This takes a step out of me having to clean up my inbox everyday.
The more automation the better.
– D3
nice and great brother
Thank you.. for sharing articles.. Great!!
Was looking for this for like 3hrs! Since i saw you repost this on Twitter I believe, if not someone else, but found it amazing & forgot to “favorite. Left me hunt down online. Google is kind tricky leading to other sites & what not, similar & sooo off topic/unrelated to my hunt, glad I hunted this down though. Gonna be trying this out later today & see how it goes!
Was hoping you could respond back to @CoolSlipknotMasks though, just so I can see what your response would be, curious is all….
Anyways, AMAZING POST old or not, looking forward to trying out for my 1st WordPress blog for my site, thanks! =]
– MexiChriS
wow,
much easier than thought earlier.
thanks for sharing this with us.
GREAT post!!
Just set it up on my website, and it’s working amazingly well and now I’m stress free from backing up hustles!
Thanks for sharing!!
If you’re running light blog I think it’s fine to set automatic backup to every day, Great Post
Nice tip. Is it also possible to use yahoo mail to this?
No, Yahoo has 10MB limit. Gmail is better
thank you, automatic is good choise
Here is best way for backing up blog also for bloggers
http://problogbooster.blogspot.com/
Always great solutions, G Mail perhaps the best. Thank You !
Backup my Gamer Blog database and store it on my gmail,how come i never thought of that,..Brilliant post !.
GREAT !
THIS IS A NICE LEARNING
THANKS
:-)
Great article. I’ll be following your advice very shortly. I already use gmail in a similar fashion for daily backups of a big osCommerce DB, and I can say that when using gzip if gmail attachments are not big enough for you then you must have a HUGE database… :-)
Thanks Dude for sharing this intelligent technique. This is exactly I was searching for many days. Now I got the idea how to get perfect database. I will follow these tips. Thanks for spending your precious time on posting this article. Keep posting these fantastic tips.
I just test and work it, thank you dude. But i have problem, i forgot my password Lycos Mail. :-(
If you have more than just wordpress running on multiple sites with multiple databases, you’ll need to find a more generic backup solution.
If you run under a cPanel hosting account, I’ve created a new desktop app, that downloads all the files or databases in your accounts on a schedule. A real time saver. It’s called Backup Smart. Runs on Windows and MAC OSX and Linux. Has a 7 day free trial. Aaron
Not sure if this will be any use for that amount of data, but I use Syncback
Thanks for the great info! I recently had a client whose giant webhost (shall remain nameless) deleted his entire site that had just been redone. I got a panicked call from him a few days after I was done with the job. Then to add insult upon injury, the giant webhost that “swears” to do daily backups actually put up his old site from months earlier. So much for daily backups!
Thank goodness I’m a backup freak when I’m working on a clients site! I was able to restore the entire site & found the rest through Google’s cache so I was able to get everything back for him.
This plugin is definitely going into my “must have” install checklist for every new blog I do.
That is a really GREAT idea for backing up a blog, thanks so much!
great plugin that save a lot of time.. thank you .
Hey, I was reading your past post and just encountered this one, great one mate!
Its Greate im need it, because i was open mine to Free Host and Hosting,
I Thinks its will be perfect If my site has done
Great post thanks for the tip
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THANK YOU! :D I’ve just implemented this on my blog and it worked perfectly. I appreciate you sharing this advice.
Quite a few people out there don’t understand what all is involved in this industry,
and I think also we are many times underrated or taken for granted.
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I hope you post again soon.
I think your suggestion would be helpful for me. I will let you know if its work for me too.
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Too good to help someone who is using wordpress first time.
Thanks a lot. Very useful tips for every webmaster with wordpress.
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As the saying goes, “The best things in life are for free”, and this is certainly one of them gems.
These tips are very nice but Lycos Mail is now not free.
so will you please tell me another option to resolve this problem.
I’m so happy I stumble upon this blog! A lot of helpful info I really needed to know these stuff, I had a hard time with those foreign characters.
Thank you so much!
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Regards.
I have used this plugin i think over than 10 days for now and i dont know why it doesn’t sent me the weekly backup! maybe the problem with the host ? i use host gator.
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Thanks for the good information! I not too long ago had a shopper whose giant webhost (shall remain anonymous) deleted his total site that had just been redone. I acquired a panicked call from him a few days after I used to be executed with the job. Then so as to add insult upon injury, the large webhost that “swears” to do day by day backups really put up his previous web site from months earlier. A lot for each day backups!
Thank goodness I’m a backup freak once I’m working on a shoppers site! I used to be capable of restore your complete website & found the remainder by means of Google’s cache so I was in a position to get all the things again for him.
thanks , i use this plugin
Unfortunately backups are a bit like insurance. You just never get round to taking it out then one day you find you need it.
Followed your instructions exactly and it worked like a dream. I was a touch concerned as I’d just upgraded to WP 3.01 but no worries at all as everything was perfect. Can’t thank you enough for pointing out this backup/GMail formula, and best of all it actually works, which so many DB backups don’t.
A long long time ago I was let down by a web host who had failed to make any backups at all. Sadly that was before the days of GMail and the cloud. I guess disk space was expensive back then, hence the lack of back up.
These days, it’s not hard to find a reliable host, and all our web design clients are well backed up. Still, belt and braces can’t hurt. (Maybe a UK-only expression ;-) )
lol – Never heard that one before! I’m from Northern Ireland though, so maybe just hasn’t gotten about over here! ;)
Perfect!
Thank you!
It is a good thing that there are some free websites that can be used. Compared to other website, even just an accidental click, you will already pay it.
Nice Tips. I just try it for me
Hey, I also use WordPress Database Backup – it works well. Is there much of a difference? Thanks
This plugin is really great and it too has a limit it can only be used with WordPress.
I plan to shift my website to another host.
Will backing up of database help?
PS: I spent the whole day reading your posts. Nice website. Cheers
My database just got deleted automatically. I use free hosting. :(
I guess I have to start all over again. Setting up the above plugin will be the first thing I will do.
Thanks Michael,
Abhimanyu
amazingly Handy and Smart Tip here..I love it and I’m Going to install it on all my blogs…Bye :)
Wow, needed this. Thank you!
Great post thanks so much fo this
Gmail has to be my favourite at the moment. It is so useful it is excellent. Great at reducing spam too.
Your site has great content and features clearly something that really is very helpful. I was pleased to have accessed your site.
Thanks!
I love the way that it is stored in a google mail account. Will try this as soon as possible.
thanks been looking to change the comments on our blog to try and attract more comments. and there is some good ideas here. Judging by the amount you have on this page yours works!
Hi to everyone
this is probably a really daft a question. I tried to use this and other back up plug ins but am told I need to do a chmod 777 in the appropriate folder. Trouble is when i set folder permssions to 777 I end up with an internal server 500 error.
So pleeease tell me what is it that Im doing so wrong that all you guys are clearly doing so right. When I find out im sure to shrivel.
Thanks all
Nice tricks. I’ll try it. Thanks…
I have done it exacly like you said and I can tell that is very simple and easy and everything works. Thanks for the tips.
Sounds good, there is no harm on trying it, after all, Gmail accounts are free. Thanks for sharing the idea.
This is really good, there is no harm on trying it, after all, Gmail accounts are free. Thanks for sharing the idea.
Nice, ill give this a try sometime. thanks
Hi, i would like to thank you, for sharing the word press plug-ins, which is really helpful for my work.
I had HUGE problems getting this to work with Gmail. I could get the e-mail to go to any other account, but not Gmail. After many hours and lots of cussing when another backup plugin also seemed to have the same problem, I finally discovered the problem:
GMAIL WAS PUTTING ALL MY BACKUPS IN THE SPAM FOLDER
Now that I’ve solved that, all’s well with the world!
making regular backups of our database. It’s too much hassle, and “what are the chance
Thanks for sharing this! I do like finding free resources and experts online to help me DIY my own IT. Thanks!
This is excellent to take backup. Thanks for sharing with us.
great wp plugin thank’s so much……………………………..
nice plugin that is
looks great.. will try it
thanks for the tips, worked a treat.
Thanks its really a Perfect hands free database. Great post thanks for sharing.
very good tips.. thank’s nice works
nice tips.. i will try it
excellent way to backup the database
http://hubpages.com/hub/Profitable-Forex-Trading-Tutorial-and-Tips
Thanks for the great post Michael! I have been debating about using the WP backup but wasn’t sure of it’s reliability and ease of use. I will test it out on my site before our clients now.
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very good tips.. thank’s nice works
I todays world data backup is a must
Hi
I am a newbie here.
Glad to find this forum…as what I am looking for
Your system is good but backup only the database, plugin does not manage splits if the maximum upload size of the web host is reached. There is yools like Website 2 Backup allowing you to do automated encrypted and compressed backup of your website files and database, to store them on Email, FTP, or locally.
Your system is good but backup only the database, plugin does not manage splits if the maximum upload size of the web host is reached. There is yools like Website 2 Backup allowing you to do automated encrypted and compressed backup of your website files and database, to store them on Email, FTP, or locally.
This is a great tip, I’ve heard of people doing things similar to this but for some reason your post actually compelled me to set it up.
nice thing,thank you very much.
i love this tips. thanks
Great thing you made this one, this is something like online back-up system this would make a lot easier.
Amazing guide for database backup. Thank you for sharing with us.
That’s awesome!!!!! You got a good internship! the fact that you enjoy your work you will least likely fall into what other call “burn-out”. You see your internship as natural process of learning and small pellet mill that was very great! However, if that experience doesn’t turn as job opportunity don’t think of it as invaluable for your future because that learning can be used in many ways.
A lot of things can happen that can screw up tenant Screening everything and ruin all your hard work invested in your content. Thanks for this plugin
There is yools like Website 2 Backup allowing you to do automated encrypted and compressed backup of your website files and database, to store!
this is a great plugin. TBH I rarely back up my online DB mainly because my host do it daily, but i suppose its a extra comfort knowing it will be email to me. Nice find!
Great thing you made this one, this is something like online back up system this would make a lot easier
awesome explanation
A lot of things can happen that can screw up tenant Screening everything and ruin all your hard work invested in your content.
I also setup a filter in gmail to automatically archive it since it goes to my regular email address I use for other things, this way it’s tenant Screening out of my way and I never see it; but I know it’s there
Thanks for the information Michael, you post are awesome I really need this type of plugin. These kind of plugins saves hours of work. Great.
Never realised we could set up automatic scheduling for backup this easily. All the ones I have done were manual back ups and it takes quite a bit of time, the theory of it does ensure this task could become easier. I will give it a try and see how it goes. Thanks for sharing the tip.
a very nice article, actually i was looking for a way to backup my wordpress based website for quite some time, didnt know at all how to do it and know after reading this article, my job has now been made easier. thanks alot.
Does it work with the latest wordpress 3.1 version which was released recently
Sourish
Very interesting and informative post. The comments are helpful as well. I am convinced that a blogger should focus on giving relevant and helpful information so thanks for the thoughts.
You did once more, you have the best sites with the best content by far, this is the second site of yours I have checked out, and found what I was looking for thanks dude.
Thanks for the post.
This is a terrific plugin. Interestingly enough however, I’ve been using the plugin for almost 2 years, and I still haven’t figured out the correct settings to have the DB automatically emailed to me each week.
Has anyone run in to a similar problem?
I regularly take backup manually backup from database. i did not know about this database backup. i will try it for my own wordpress site. i will really help me to manage my backup without wasting my time.
The comments are helpfully as well. I’m convinced that a blogger should focus on giving relevant and helpful information and thanks for the thoughts.
thanks for sharing this method. i am always scared of web host data failure.
thankss for sharing this, it helped me loads.
thanks for sharing this method. i am always scared of web host data failure.
Another useful information. Thanks for sharing..
Your work is very good and I appreciate you and hopping for some more informative posts. thank you for sharing great information to us.
Does it work with the latest wordpress 3.1 version?
Thanks for this well illustrated procedure. It greatly helped me setup a backup schedule for my website. The Lycos Mail tip was really informative and useful.
Thanks for this well illustrated procedure. It greatly helped me setup a backup schedule for my website. The Lycos Mail tip was really informative and useful.
thank you for sharing great information to us.
Does it work with the latest wordpress 3.1 version?
thanks for sharing but i dont use email on my domain in wrodpress
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I just installed this on my blogs, will let you know what will be happened??
This is clever. I’ll give it a shot.
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this is the-perfect-hands-free-database-backup
How could i never tought about that? Gave me a great idea to implement in another site thats not running on wordpress, thats an easy php module to build and the benefits of having an e-commerce database periodically backed up without any work is HUGE
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This plugin helped mate! – There are a lot out these and we generally go zoinks on which one to choose
Thanks a lot!
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Nice one thanks for the share
i done exactly what you told me but message in red letters on top of my wordpress admin panel is not going, which said
“To correct this issue, move the .htaccess file from wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to /home/viewsbuz/public_html/reviews66.com/wp-content/backup-db”
please help me out
“To correct this issue, move the .htaccess file from wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to /home/viewsbuz/public_html/reviews66.com/wp-content/backup-db”
try wp database recovery
Great tips. I already done this today after one year of works :)
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Another useful information. Thanks for sharing..
What do you use to backup the other (non-database) files for your site? It seems WP DB Manager and WP DB Backup are two safe bets as far as the database goes, but I’m currently scouring the web for the best solution for the rest of the files. Haven’t found a solid winner yet that is free, complete, and doesn’t require an Amazon S3 account.
thanks for putting this up.
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WOW thanks for this information. I didn’t know that there is a free wp backup like this one
IDrive Plugin is another good plugin with 5 GB of storage space
A very good and informative article indeed . It helps me a lot to enhance my knowledge, I really like the way the writer presented his views. Thanks.
pretty good database back up
very nice post! it’s really useful! thank’s
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Thanks, for a good article!
Backing up is super important. Thanks for bringing to people’s attention. And the gmail idea is good because you can have multiple gmail accts.
i am using wp dbbackup manage . and it fit what i need.
Wow, this is such a good idea! Especially if you are traveling with a laptop. I have an external hard drive for backups but when traveling I don’t carry it with me.
i installed wp db backup manager, and set to sent the backup to my gmail..
free solution for me…
This seems like an ok way to back up if you are in a pinch but using an external drive is so much better I think. But then having it off site also would be a good thing.
Thanks very much from Italy, for a good post!
I know this is a bit of an old post and I’m not too sure how I ended up on this post. I have a suggestion for anyone that might come across this post nearly 3.5 years after it was posted.
There is a plugin called BackWPup that is free and can be found in the WordPress plugin directory. You are able to link it to a Dropbox account (or other cloud storage) and then do complete backups of WordPress sites. Files, databases, etc.
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Such good advice, I had not heard about backing up to email before, a nice inexpensive diy solution. Thanks.
Firstly Thank you for the enlightenment =)
There are so many options now for a copy of backup =).
BTW, if you are looking for backup to email…
I am trying mail2world.com, unlimited storage and attachment size. =)
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Its very informative blog and very nice outlook!
thanks for the tips.
Wow, this is a great plugin.