Yakezie.com - Topic: Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 Marissa on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62901 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62901 Im glad everyone is on top of it.

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:02:03 +0000 Glen Craig on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62898 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62898 I'm using WP-DBManager for daily database backups.  I've also set up a Google Calendar message once a month for cpanel backups.  With that I also make sure to back up my Thesis settings.

 

And at my new host I pay a little extra to keep the last 5 days backed up.

 

One day I'll be brave enough to learn about out a CRON job for backups.

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:39:25 +0000 Hank Coleman on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62832 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62832 Thanks for the reminder. I typically use a plugin for the db but often forget about all the other files. 

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:52:28 +0000 retireby40 on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62801 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62801 Thanks for the reminder. I just backed up the whole thing via cpanel. Backing up via Amazon sounds like a good plan too. 

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:08:36 +0000 Eric - PersonalProfitability.com on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62798 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62798 OneCentAtatime said:

Another way to manually backing up is.. FTP on to your site (i use filezilla) and copy entire webroot. I keep one on my laptop and another one in the external hard drive. Any one need a help with filezilla or ftp, email me.

Just because you copy all of your files from the FTP server doesn't mean you got your database too. You need to have copies of both.

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:55 +0000 OneCentAtatime on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62776 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62776 Another way to manually backing up is.. FTP on to your site (i use filezilla) and copy entire webroot. I keep one on my laptop and another one in the external hard drive. Any one need a help with filezilla or ftp, email me.

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:45:16 +0000 MoneyIsTheRoot on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62764 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62764 Always a good reminder!

 

And another reason to spend a few more bucks on reputable hosting...

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:03:34 +0000 MoneyBeagle on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62740 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62740 I will have to do some homework in the cPanel backup.  I back up my database once a week.  Don't recall the plugin but I can either choose to have it email or just download it right then, which I do. 

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:52:18 +0000 insurancedoesmatter on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62735 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62735 Could not agree more on all of this... We've been using plugins for most of our db backups but it's never quite as good as the "entire" database that you can get in cpanel (or elsewhere depending on your hosting setup).. slowly getting organized to do this on a regular basis.

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:40:14 +0000 JP on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62729 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62729 Through ftp you can backup the public_html folder and everything in it as well.  I do this every time I make a site change or once a month which ever happens first.  I usually keep 3 backups (one for each month) just in case something is messed up I can go back 3 months.  I do this on top of the regular database backup.

 

LaTisha @YoungAdultFinances said:

I use a plugin that emails me a copy of my site's database twice a day. Is there something else I should be backing up?

]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:39:45 +0000 Jason@LiveRealNow on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62715 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62715 I use the backupbuddy plugin.   It loads weekly database backups and monthly everything-but-the-kitchen-sink backups to Amazon.  Those backups come with a script to completely load the site on your server.    It's great for migrations and backups.

]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:53:47 +0000 Marissa on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62707 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62707 I am switching webhosts shortly as well- just have to get the whole mess sorted out first. But yeah, I know there is a way to download the backup thru cpanel. Laziness got in the way it seems.

]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:50:50 +0000 Dividend Ninja on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62704 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62704 Marissa, that is really unfortunate, and I'm sorry to hear this. But your right, a lot of hosts don't do daily backups, and its not easy to get things backed up sometimes.

Sustainable PF is right, there is no gaurantee that a plugin will do a proper backup for you, and I haven't had much luck with plugins either. Going into your Cpanel (if that is the host platform) is the best way to backup. If I'm not mistaken it can even be scheduled and you can have regular backups emailed to you. Do not go into phpmyadmin unless you know what are you doing ;)

Cheers
Avrom

]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:27:38 +0000 Melissa (Mom's Plans) on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62703 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62703 Stupid question, but SPF can you explain in detail how you do this?  I use a plugin, but it hasn't been e-mailing the back up to me nightly as it is supposed to do.

]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:17:26 +0000 jaicatalano on Please back up your sites! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62699 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/please-back-up-your-sites/#p62699 Thanks for reminding me. I backed it up a month ago but I need to do it again. Thanks.

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