You don’t want to get caught with your pants down, right?

Creating a backup for your own WordPress Weblog is among one of these steps that quite a few individuals interestingly overlook and simply plain ignore.

Frankly, I don’t comprehend it.

Quite possibly it’s mainly because these people think nothing terrible will occur to all their work they’ve labored so faithfully to write and put up on their website. With internet technology these days I do think people have the mind-set that online hosting companies are so advanced with redundancy as well as data backup that their web hosting provider is going to take care of their blog.

Don’t bet on it.

You’ve by now identified the question ‘why do a blog‘, so do not lose all the hard work that you have put in to it!

You’ve undoubtedly identified the question why, so do not lose all the hard work that you have put in to it!

I’m not necessarily saying that there aren’t reliable webhosts nowadays that will operate site backups to suit your needs since there are. However, let’s say an issue occurred to their backups? You’re in big trouble, pure and simple. And once your blog data is wiped out…

It’s very simple to backup your WordPress blog site. Plus it won’t cost you a dime! Please read on…

Rather than give you a review of WordPress plug-ins you would be able to look over to back up your blog I’m going to endorse the plug-in I use with all my WordPress sites.

Of course, you are free to head over to WordPress.org and examine numerous back up plugins. I merely wished to share with you what I use simply because I like it the best. It is of course, your choice.

WordPress Database Backup

WordPress Database Backup is a superb wordpress plugin developed by Austin Matzko. WordPress Database Backup makes a data backup of your WordPress tables (tables are your data…posts, etc…) together with other data that one can choose within the same database.

The plug-in is simple to use. You may down load it here at this link: http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/ and use your FTP program to upload it in your WordPress Plugin directory.

Yet as you may most likely know these days, you’re able to download and install plugins straight from your WordPress administrator page.

Simply login to your WordPress site, and then click the ‘Plugins’ link on the left sidebar and then click on the ‘add new’ link near the top of the page. Then type in ‘WordPress Database Backup’ and this should be the 1st result. If it is not, it’ll be close to the top. Then just click install, and go set up the plug-in.

Here’s a crucial step that can’t be disregarded. You actually have got to generate a backup of your website! Trust me, people forget to perform this step! Hey, it’s as essential as how to set up a blog…therefore do not overlook this.

Now, you can actually go in to your configuration options and schedule automatic backups. However, I like to run a back-up manually and then save my backup as a file. Perhaps I’m just paranoid.

You’ll see at the top where you can run a backup. The plugin will inform you when it’s done.

What I advise you do next is save the back up file to a separate location such as a CD-ROM, external storage device if you have one or even a provider like Dropbox. I prefer Dropbox and simply put, Dropbox rules!

My own recommendation is always to retain several backups of your website. Basically, keep the last 5 backups you performed just to be safe. Better safe than sorry…correct?

That’s it. You can now now relax knowing that your blog’s data is protected in case of a disaster and your web hosting company comes crashing down. Then you can certainly say, “Heh!! I’m backed up man!”