Although backing up wordpress database may seems unimportant to some, but it is crucial for frequently updated blogs with high traffic.
Self-hosted WordPress are vulnerable to various server failure and data loss, and you can’t always rely on your webhosting company to make database backup on your behalf everyday, because they might have thousand of customers to attend to. The best they could do when hard disk crash occur is to restore the previous backup they made (and that might be days ago, if not weeks).

To make this work, you need to do is download and install WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup plugins by Scott Merill.

After you’ve done with that, activate WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup plugins, and then go to Manage->Backup Tab. You’ll see extra optionswhich enable you to send your WordPress backup daily to email (I suggest using gmail.com as they have large storage size).

Do not store your WordPress backup on the same server as your wordpress hosting, because if the server goes down, It will take your backup along with it, use gmail email service instead.

It might seems to much to backup your wordpress daily, but you never know when your hard disk might fails, and the daily backup might be worthwhile to make. Remember: better be safe than sorry!

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