Backup Anytime

With the rush to get copies of data off-site and focus therefore on protecting local data, web based data can be left ’till last. Obvious examples of this are website, CRM and blog database.

This is where a requirement for wordpress backup comes in. This requires database backup and remember we are talking about a live database here. Your wordpress database is effectively everything you, your contributors and commentors add to your wordpress blog.

One very good wordpress plug in created by Austin Matzko of http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/ allows for wordpress backup to site, local disk or email.

I have been using this system for three months now and have backed up to all three location types. I have also run on demand and scheduled data base backups. The only difficulty I had was backing up the data for a specific plugin which is not part of, a standard wordpress release so this is not Austins issue.

I was tempted to give this plug in a plug (excuse the pun) a couple of months ago but decided to wait awhile and see how it managed over time. The answer is excellent. If you absolutely need to have a copy of your blog (which you do) this is the answer.

The plugin is available from a number of sites. I emailed Austin offering an Irish download mirror yesterday.

No word back yet. If he wants it, it is available.

John