Comments on: Choosing a WordPress backup plugin that is right for you

By: Pete Chapman

Pete Chapman — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:15:18 +0000

Great review Sergey!, backing up is so important but so often neglected or simply over looked.
I also have been using myEASYbackup, because it backs everything up including your themes and plugins, although my latest attempt to back up could not complete due to not enough memory available to PHP, I wonder if my hosting provider can increase this?.

Best regards
Pete
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By: Cesar

Cesar — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:15:44 +0000

I am using myEASYbackup, a great plugin taking care of my entire installation, files and database. I have just used it to move a couple of my customer's site to a different hosting service. Support is superb and its totally free, you can get it at http://myeasywp.com

By: Melinda

Melinda — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:02:08 +0000

I have been using a good wordpress backup plugin called XCloner from http://www.xcloner.com, it can backup both files and databases and restore them, pretty useful....

By: vince

vince — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:14:31 +0000

Well, the DBC Backup plugin seems ok, but
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By: @familybizguy

@familybizguy — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:45:45 +0000

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By: Marcie

Marcie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:22:09 +0000

This is great information for all WordPress users, especially ones who do not back up information. Like me. Thanks!

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:48:37 +0000

Interesting review. However, (and I have seen this before, so don't take it personal), a review of backup plug-in/utilities seems to miss the mark when it does not include reports on how the various plug-ins handle restores.

I lost a large number of very valuable posts when there was a server problem and after I had fixed that, the backups that I had been diligently saving for years would not restore … what a useless exercise in waste of time and waste of disk space *sigh*

There are certainly pros can cons in emailing to oneself, but it sure beats the default many seem to us …leaving the backup on the same server as your WordPress blog … again, a waste of time … you need backups on a location diverse from your hosting server, or there seems little reason to bother making them. Or so Dave opines.

By: Brent Logan

Brent Logan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:33:32 +0000

I have used only WP-DB-Backup. I like that it e-mails the backup to me rather than (potentially) leaving them on the same hard drive as my database. I don't want a catastrophic disk failure taking out my backups.

I send my backups to my GMail account where they are automatically deleted by a rule. GMail says they keep all deleted mail for 30 days — plenty long.

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:29:41 +0000

I am using WP DB Backup.

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:55:33 +0000

Does these three plugings back up only the database or the whole stuff? My host set up a cron for me and a daily database backup is running but I am looking for the program which do it all…

Nice post again, thanks.

Jarkko

By: John Krehbiel

John Krehbiel — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:43:07 +0000

I did not understand a word of it! But it “looks” good to this computer dummy. GREAT Sergii! Wishing you much success in 2010!

By: Sergey Smirnov

Sergey Smirnov — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:33:44 +0000

Always glad to be useful

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:34:54 +0000

Thanks for the link Sergey, I'll take a look at it.

Cheers,

Jarkko

By: Sergey Smirnov

Sergey Smirnov — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:18:30 +0000

Thank you so much! Great health to you as well

By: Sergey Smirnov

Sergey Smirnov — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:17:46 +0000

Actually using the cron job script you can also backup the themes and other stuff from your WordPress. This means that you would simply need to add directive to make archives of the folders where themes and the rest is located to your cron script. But if you are looking for a plugin that can do this try: Wordpress Backup by Blog Traffic Exchange. You can find it at http://www.blogtrafficexchange.com/wordpress-back...