Comments on: 8 MySQL Backup Strategies for WordPress Bloggers (And Others)

By: myRepono

myRepono — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:57:29 +0000

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By: Aaron Dwyer

Aaron Dwyer — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:42:46 +0000

I use a desktop tool that I wrote called Backup Smart for this which takes a scheduled backup of my databases straight out of cPanel and saves them locally on my HDD. Aaron

By: Alexander Reif

Alexander Reif — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:11:48 +0000

I use the wordpress plugin and let the backup be mailed once a week to my Gmail account. Then on Gmail I’ve set up a filter that marks that mail automatically as read and archieves it.

Gmail has enough disk quota to store all my database backups. (if you want you can even set up a Gmail account ONLY for your database backups…)
ciao
alexander

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:56:23 +0000

Excelent guide, Although I’ve had a question for some time now, when you back up your wordpress, what exactly are you backing up?

Posts, registered users, commnets, categories?
Those types of things, I was actually looking for a complete list of these aspects that are backed up but I had no luck.

Hope you can help me.
Thank you.

By: Typolight

Typolight — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:41:40 +0000

Thanks, you nice post that helped me alot.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:08:13 +0000

Sorry to jump in here so late. First, many thanks for taking the time to put this together – it’s incredibly useful and appreciated. I got it set up and working perfectly, except that the emails it sends don’t have attachments. They all say “begin 644 ./etc/MySQL.sql.gz.UU”, followed by a ridiculously long string of encoded text, which I’m guessing is the dump. The .gz backup is saved to my etc directory, it’s just the email attachment that’s screwy. Any ideas or thoughts on where to look for an answer?

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Updating Wordpress Revisited | Dailymirror.us — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:19:34 +0000

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By: How to setup Cron Job Using Cpanel? « PHP Programmer Of Bangladesh

How to setup Cron Job Using Cpanel? « PHP Programmer Of Bangladesh — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:05:25 +0000

[...] run the automatic backup script, which backs up your MySQL database and emails a copy to you (see 8 MySQL Backup Strategies for WordPress Bloggers (And Others), strategy #7), you’d enter /bin/sh (since this is a shell script), and the path to your [...]

By: chris mccorkle

chris mccorkle — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:34:12 +0000

hey, thank you for these great tips.

By: Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:43:25 +0000

No problem, Butch. Happy to help.

By: Butch

Butch — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:42:04 +0000

Thanks a Bunch soon as i had gotten the comment I pluged in and backed it up

By: kabababrubarta

kabababrubarta — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:57:01 +0000

Cool! kabababrubarta

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:04:30 +0000

We used an online backup system called http://www.disksave.com. They have a Linux or windows installer and it seemlessly integrates with Mysql and works fine. It encrypts the data as well for privacy issues.

By: How to Create a Cron Job in cPanel

How to Create a Cron Job in cPanel — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:13:02 +0000

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By: Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:39:28 +0000

Jon, I didn’t write the script, but you might try to enter a path to your database where it says:

DBNAME=

Good luck, and let us know if it works!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:39:17 +0000

sorry for the double dip…I meant database server isn’t “localhost”

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:38:34 +0000

Will your cron_backup_1.2_without_mutt work if the database is not “localhost” I don’t see a way to edit it in there?

By: Annual Reminder (and some options) to Backup Your WordPress Blog « Lorelle on WordPress

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:19:42 +0000

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By: WordPress Station

WordPress Station — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:05:12 +0000

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By: Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:09:36 +0000

I did manage to get the wp-db-backup to work on my test blog, and it worked for a few times on Futurosity, but now nothing happens when I try to backup. I didn't get any error messages. It might be a conflict with another plugin, but I prefer the cron_backup_1.2_without_mutt script anyway. I have it running every few hours when I'm home working, and can dial it back when I'm not posting as frequently. I was never able to get WP-cron to work on any of my blogs. BTW, everyone should check out Dimitry's blog. Gorgeous design.

By: Dimitry

Dimitry — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:56:23 +0000

Nice writeup. This will definitely come in handy. I’m surprised you had trouble getting WP plugins to works. Worked without a glitch for me. Does it give you any errors?

Thanks for visiting and commenting on my site!
Dimitry