backup plans for your blog

Read by earlier posts Part I , II , III before continue reading this

What is a good backup ?

In case of disaster , we need to have an option to re-start our blog in a minimum amount of time.
Why is it so important.After all this is not a mission critical application ?
search engine robots will deal very badly with page not found errors, so this may negatively impact our search engine rankings. So there comes the importance of backup.

This is my backup plan.

Database backup

I use two plugins for (wordpress) db backup
WordPress Database backup (http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup)
- This provide ondemand WP DB backup
- You may need to use PHP Myadmin for restore.

WP- DBManager (http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/)
Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database
Main attraction for this plugin is , it has an option for restore. Even these backups would send you the backup files in your email address if required.

Webserver backup

copy public_html folder once in a week to your local disk

Word Press export
Take an export using Word Press tools which provides an XML file, this can be used to move your blogs from one server to another.

Now we have two set of DB backup and a two set of web server files backup. So 100 % restore is possible. After all Peace of mind is more than anything.

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