The importance of making back-ups

I want you to know, that backing up is one of the most important things to do at a website. You should ALWAYS back-up your website. Even if you think nothing could go wrong. Imagine you made a website, and have it for a while, and you have quite a lot of visitors. And then, something you didn’t expect goes wrong and you lost everything. I guess that’s something nobody want’s to happen to their website. So in this article some tips on backing-up. Specifically backing-up WordPress.

Some tips that can come in handy for backing-up

• Remember to back-up on a regular basis, so like ones a day, or ones a week. I prefer ones a day, because when something goes wrong, it’s not possible that I lose a whole hack of a lot.
• Safe your back-ups locally, if something goes wrong on your server, you can lose your back-ups, and then you can start all over again.
• Back-up both your files from your website and your database, or else you would lose all your post, pages etc.

Use plugins to back-up your website

There are some great plugins out there that can help you backing-up your website. We’ll start with a plugin to back-up your database. The plugin is called WP-DB-Backup, and is downloadable here. When you download ans install the plugin you can choose from different options. You can instantly back-up your database, after selecting witch tables you do want and don’t want to back-up. You can safe the back-up you made to a directory inside WordPress, you can download the back-up. Or you could e-mail it to yourself.

I blurred some things out for my privacy. With this plugin you can also do scheduled back-ups! You can set how often to back-up, and on which time(s). The scheduled back-ups will be mailed to you.
After that is done we can jump to the files on your website.

Backing-up both the files on your website and the database

There is awesome plugin called BackWpUp that takes care of backing-up everything on your website. The plugin is downloadable here. This plugin can also do scheduled back-ups, and you can choose from a variety of back-up location. Like in an folder on your website, on a different FTP server, on an Amazon S3 server, on Google Storage, on Microsoft Azure, on RackSpaceCloud, on Dropbox, on SugarSync and you can also let the back-up be e-mailed to you. It’s very wide plugin.

It works very neat. But remember; if you back-up to a folder or an FTP server, always download the back-ups and store them locally. That’s it!