Comments on: The one blogging disaster you can’t recover from…

By: dirtybluewidgets

dirtybluewidgets — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:05 +0000

Having an automatic plugin should be automatic! Especially for dummies like me who never think about b/u until the pain hits…like it did last year on my boxing blog! Now I’m a dedicated WordPress Database Backup Plugin devotee.

By: unixwayoflife

unixwayoflife — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:03:39 +0000

“For WordPress.com or TypePad hosted blogs you’ll have to set up a recurring calendar event (say once a week) and manually “export” your posts and comments.”

It doesn’t have to be that way. I wrote a small perl script which downloads the backup xml file without user interaction. What means it can be scheduled to run as cron job = unattended backup.

http://unixwayoflife.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/automated-wordpress-com-backup/

By: Nathan Bowers

Nathan Bowers — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:32:00 +0000

The .tar file is a “zipped” up version of your database, so that’s fine. I like the plugin because it’s automated. Having to remember = you’ll forget.

By: Karen JL

Karen JL — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:10:08 +0000

I back-up from my Cpanel and it give me one of those .tar files. Is this just as good? Or should I be using that WP plug-in? More disaster-friendly, you think?

Good warning man. (And a very fetching zombie). :)