101 – What is Your WordPress Backup Strategy
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Joe Cannon previous question I thought you would be the perfect person to ask this of. I sometimes update my posts as new information becomes available. As I add new information, Id like to change the time stamp so my blog post reflects that its more recent. My question is would I lose any SEO juice by doing this? I often rank #1 in google for the products I review so I was curious.
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What is your WordPress backup strategy?
What type of service?
Free
– BackWPUp
– WordPress Backup to Dropbox
Paid Plugins
– BackupBuddy
Services
– VaultPress
Automatic or Manual?
- Automatic never forget
- I manually back up before any upgrades or adding a new plugin
- It’s as easy as clicking a button
What should I back up?
For Clients
– the database
– the uploads folder
For Yourself
– the database
– the wp-content folder
How do I backup my backups?
- There is no point of having a backup if you lose it or can’t find it
- You can use a paid cloud service like Amazon S3 or Rackspace
- You can use Dropbox
- You can burn to CD
I use <a href=”http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/”>BackWPup</a> (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/) to back up to SugarSync, but the plugin can also back up to the web server or several other third-party services. At some point I may switch to Rackspace or Amazon S3. Last month I blogged the steps I use for BackWPup: http://optimwise.com/automatic-free-wordpress-backups-backwpup-plugin/
Nov 8, 2012I use BackWPup (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/) to back up to SugarSync. The plugin can also back up to the web server running the site, or to several other third-party services. At some point I may switch to Rackspace or Amazon S3. I blogged the steps I use for BackWPup: http://optimwise.com/automatic-free-wordpress-backups-backwpup-plugin/
Nov 8, 2012Thank you for the new episode! I always look forward to Wednesday night (in my time zone) for your your new episode. 🙂
Nov 8, 2012For backup, I use WP-DB-Backup plugin. I’ve tried other seemingly more advanced plugins before (forgot the names…), but couldn’t get it worked as there was something not compatible or not activated at my hosting provider’s server end. I didn’t bother contacting them for inquiry.
Anyways, good luck with the podcast awards. Hope my votes will count!
@JoeyF Thanks Joey! I’ve used WP-DB-Backup before too and it’s a powerful plugin and does the job quite nicely 🙂
Nov 12, 2012Thanks for voting for the podcast awards too!
For off-site images, I love the plugin Grab & Save. This plugin will download the image from the given link, and then put that image into WordPress’s media library, thus resizing it and other typical processing.
Nov 18, 2012@DanielJLewis Thanks Daniel! I’ve never heard of Grab & Save. Sounds like a great plugin!
Nov 19, 2012