What's The Best Way Of Backing Up Wordpress

Geek3000

11 years ago

Man, I use WP-Twin. It works good for me. I don't know about the others though.

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Tim Franklin

11 years ago

There are a lot of different methods, the most important thing is to have more than one method and have backups of the backups, anything can happen, network interruption, incomplete backups, corrupted backup files, what works on one host may not work on another, what worked the last time may not work this time.

the most important thing to remember is to do it slowly.

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11 years ago

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stormyweather 11 years ago

I recommend Backup Buddy. Get yourself and Amazon S3 account and set it up so that the backup is made locally and then gets sent off to S3 and then deleted from your local store.

If your site isn't too big, do complete backups each time. Backup Buddy will tell you on the WordPress dashboard how many changes have been made to your site when you log in, so you will be reminded to backup manually, even if you don't set up a scheduled backup.

I find this is a good enough method. You might want to practice restoration too. Also remember that when something bad does happen you can't always rely on a backup to save you. It just depends what has gone wrong to cause you to want to rebuild your site.

If for example you'd been hacked, but you din't notice for 3 months, then all your backups for the last three months will contain the hack, so just saying you have to be mindful.

Backup Buddy also contains a malware scan which helps to make this last sceario less likely, and hopefully you are also hosting somewhere where they work to keep your site safe as possible.
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alanonline

11 years ago

Andy simply use this plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpr...up-to-dropbox/

So anything if goes wrong on the server you have the files available with you, also in terms of anything if goes wrong on the page you can simply use revisions option that is there for all the posts and page. Simply restore to the date when things were working fine.

For more information about revisions you can find it here : Revisions « WordPress Codex

If you still need a paid service you can ping me.

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Andy Johns

11 years ago

Thanks all for your advice.

It really helps. I am surprised no one has mentioned Back Up Creator I found it on here and it seems to have good ratings on here. That was the one I was going to decide on after seeing the reviews on here. Am I missing something? I don't mind spending the money.

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steffanmax

11 years ago

i have done this for 10 years, never backed anything up..

- more time wasted backing up
- if you can't recreate it faster the second time just drop it. (this is not something for you then, do what you do good) it is like any other sport, job or hobby.
- to do things over and over.. is good

in other words DON'T backup, if you want to become an expert.

I have had over 200 projects lost in my time, because i didn't backed up, and every time i suprised myself, wow you could do it again, and wow instead of 10 hours, it only took 2 hours this time..

Have a nice day

(But i can see no-one agree, no-one is and will become a pro, just average)

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Dan Riffle

11 years ago

Originally Posted by steffanmax

i have done this for 10 years, never backed anything up..

- more time wasted backing up
- if you can't recreate it faster the second time just drop it. (this is not something for you then, do what you do good) it is like any other sport, job or hobby.
- to do things over and over.. is good

in other words DON'T backup, if you want to become an expert.

I have had over 200 projects lost in my time, because i didn't backed up, and every time i suprised myself, wow you could do it again, and wow instead of 10 hours, it only took 2 hours this time..

Have a nice day

(But i can see no-one agree, no-one is and will become a pro, just average)

This sounds completely logical.

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NobleSavage

11 years ago

Originally Posted by steffanmax

i have done this for 10 years, never backed anything up..

- more time wasted backing up
- if you can't recreate it faster the second time just drop it. (this is not something for you then, do what you do good) it is like any other sport, job or hobby.
- to do things over and over.. is good

in other words DON'T backup, if you want to become an expert.

I have had over 200 projects lost in my time, because i didn't backed up, and every time i suprised myself, wow you could do it again, and wow instead of 10 hours, it only took 2 hours this time..

Have a nice day

(But i can see no-one agree, no-one is and will become a pro, just average)

That has to be the most stupid thing I've seen on WF yet.

I use Rsync and can restore a backup in minutes.

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SteveJohnson 11 years ago

Originally Posted by NobleSavage

That has to be the most stupid thing I've seen on WF yet.

I use Rsync and can restore a backup in minutes.

You've been here less than a year. Trust me, that won't be the stupidest thing you've seen if you hang around for very long...
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AmericanMuscleTA

11 years ago

I do manual backups with FileZilla.

Here are two great tutorials on manually backing up Wordpress with FileZilla:

http://www.inmotionhosting.com/suppo...ckup-using-ftp

How to Backup your WordPress Files and Database manually

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vikash_kumar

11 years ago

A Sound Backup strategy is very important for a money maker site. After testing almost all backup software's....My vote goes with Backupbuddy+Amazon S3 combination....

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Andy Johns

11 years ago

Thanks for all the input. In the end I have decided to do two things:

1. I have gone for Vault press as my main backup solution. It's made by the guys that do wordpress.com and akismet and a bunch of other things so for a solid solution I thought they would be a good bet.

2. I am going to look up some tutorials on how to back up my site manually myself. Thanks AmericanMuscleTA for your suggestions. I will check them out. This will be my second back up solution as a bit of a fail safe.

Thanks everyone.

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Jill Carpenter 11 years ago

Originally Posted by steffanmax

i have done this for 10 years, never backed anything up..

Not Recommended!

My server was hacked a couple years ago.

I use Backup Creator

Can back up to amazon or where ever - on auto pilot.
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trendier

11 years ago

I really love Updraftplus, it goes right into my Google Drive account without a single problem in 5 months.

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dbk03

11 years ago

I always prefer the host backup solution.

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JohnZ

11 years ago

I'm using Backup Buddy, but I've also tried Online backup for WordPress and WP-DB-Backup. Another great option is Blog Vault, but you'll have to pay a monthly fee. Assess your budget and decide whether you want a free or a paid plugin. Test several backup solutions until you find one that works best for you.

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