Let’s look at what’s been happening recently, and possibly a good reason for you to back up your blog NOW:
1. You’ve been writing way more posts than usual. Great content, everyone is enjoying blog. Would be a sad day if you lost it all because of a server hiccup, wouldn’t it?
2. You’ve got a lot of new people visiting your blog and leaving great comments. They’re singing praises to your insight, humor, information and wit. Do you want to risk losing all those praises to a network glitch?
3. WordPress 3.0 arrived about a week ago. Now you either want to take the plunge immediately, or you’ve already done it. But who’s to say something nasty won’t corrupt your precious database in the process?
4. Now that your blog is so popular, you probably want to tidy it up, freshen up the look with a new theme. And maybe even add that snazzy Networked Blogs widget to show off all your cool followers or a neato plugin you saw on someone else’s blog. But deleting the wrong plugin or theme files (especially ones you’ve customized) could mean your blog will never be the same again.
So, go now and backup your blog! Simply do a search for “backup” on your plugin home page and pick one. I have mine emailed to me nightly. And guess what, I needed to use it just last night. So you never know if your backup will come in handy.
Keep in mind that some plugins will back up your WordPress installation and database – other will back up your database only (this is most important). Have your backup emailed to you, then save it on your hard drive for safe keeping.
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Excellent point Gwen. Mu whole computer crashed in the middle of May. All my fault for not keeping things buttoned up. But I knew how to recover from the crash so it worked out.
Yes Backups are huge. Most of us are here to begin to make a second income. It would be good to get into the habit when it is small to backup everything. There are even online services that will keep regular backups of you whole computer data %0 bucks a year to preserve your future livelihood is more than a fair trade.
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There’s no question about it, Gwen, backing up your blog is a MUST. I just started backing up my WordPress blog about two months ago and I have the back up file emailed to me every Sunday.
It’s great that your post covered this topic today. Would hate to see anyone’s work go down the drain.
Very helpful info!
Melanie
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Great blog post! Backup is so important but most people never think about it. It is so simple and we all need to start getting into the habit. I am going to backup my blog today. Thanks for the reminder.
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My blogs are automatically backed up every night. The backups for one get mailed to a special gmail account I set up for it. The other comes to my main email no matter what I tell it to do. At least I have it.
As to you needing yours last night…eeee! Glad you had it, but still gives me the shivers. I hesitated over upgrading to WordPress 3.0 in the middle of a blog challenge, but it went okay. Phew!
Here’s to your blog staying stable!
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In response to Karen’s comment:
Hi Karen,
That’s a good idea! Sending it to a special Gmail account! Its not very difficult to use the backup. In fact, the backup I have was totally USELESS. I got all errors trying to restore with that thing. So you might want to test out your backup, just in case.
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Hey Gwen,
Here it is the 30th of June and I have not made 30 blog posts this month. I had to focus my attention on the immediate income producing activities in my business. All is not loss though. I will be blogging for a long time to come. I actually started a 2nd blog here recently…LOL:)
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