Well, there are more than one way to back up your blog, it’s up to you how do you want it. There are plugins available which offer daily backups for your Website’s database. This methods is as easy as installing just another plugin in your WordPress blog, configure the plugin and keep getting the back up in your email. We list few methods to keep a backup of your WordPress blog.
#1 Free WordPress Plugins
When you are in no position to invest some money for this one, Free WordPress Plugins respect that and offer you a s good as premium services, but you really need an eye to search that particular plugin.
BackWPup
This plugin offers an easy way to back things up, on different service, you can get the whole wp content backed up. Here are few things it offers.
- Database Backup (needs mysqli)
- WordPress XML Export
- Generate a file with installed plugins
- Optimize Database
- Check and repair Database
- File backup
- Backups in zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2 format (needs gz, bz2, ZipArchive)
- Store backup to directory
- Store backup to FTP server (needs ftp)
- Store backup to S3 services (needs curl)
- Store backup to Microsoft Azure (Blob) (needs PHP 5.3.2, curl)
- Store backup to RackSpaceCloud (needs PHP 5.3.2, curl)
- Store backup to Dropbox (needs curl)
- Store backup to SugarSync (needs curl)
- Send logs and backups by email
- Multi-site support only as network admin
BackUpWordPress
This Free plugin lets you back up your entire blog, including database and web content, you can automate the process by scheduling the backups.
#2 Premium WordPress Plugins
It is suggested that you go for a premium plugin if you have a budget that allows it. Premium service will give you a piece of mind and the customer service will never disappoint you, I can say this by personal experience.
VaultPress
A blog back up service by Automattic, which also owns WordPress. You just need to install it like any other plugin on your WordPress blog, and as it is from the same company it understands your blog platform
It costs $15 per month for basic which offers
· Realtime Backup
· Automated Site Restore
· Archives, Stats and Activity Log
Offers more features as you opt for higher plans.
#3 Use Windows Live Writer for Publishing
Windows live writer is a Windows based Blog Publishing Client which makes life easy when it comes to posting blog posts on your blog. Apart from making your life easy, it also saves each an every published post in a specific folder on your PC, which also acts as a backup in case nothings works for you.
#4 Backup from cPanel
Though your hosting services take a backup of files temporarily, you can manually back up your database and web files on your PC. Making a habit of backing up files on a weekly basis has proved to be a great way to get things up and running easily. Though it requires some effort but it’s worth it.
