Backup Wordpress automatically with WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup
A short post, but today I would like to share you two Wordpress plugins that could save your blog’s (and possibly your) life.
WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup helps you to backup your Wordpress files periodically to your email. You probably already have WP-DB-Backup If you’re using Wordpress 2.x, I hope that you would have already utilised this plugin as it can be handy to backup your Wordpress installations.
WP-Cron takes the backup process further by automating WP-DB-Backup job to send daily wordpress backup to your emails. Although this seems redundant most of the time, rest assured it will be worth it when your Web Hosting fs*ck on you.
For this to work, I suggest that you send your wordpress backup to a gmail account since gmail account is able to store gigabytes of data, so your wordpress backup will be save there should you need it.
You can download WP-DB-Backup and WP-Cron from http://www.skippy.net/blog/plugins/
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meaning “time.”) You can get the plugin at Skippy.Net. If you install the WP-Cron plugin, the Backup management tab will give you the option to back up your database automatically every day and e-mail it to you. I learned about this from Tip Vista and started doing it immediately. Remember to send the backup file to an account which is not hosted on the same server as the blog! The database for my Authorized Articles blog is only about 150K, so it’s a manageable attachment. If you have a
