How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Backup WordPress
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The document discusses the importance and methods of backing up WordPress sites, addressing the audience of bloggers, business owners, and web developers. It outlines the qualities of a good backup, including restore capabilities, completeness, automation, and duplication, while also comparing various backup plugins and services. The document emphasizes the necessity of regular backups before major updates and provides tips for content retrieval and backup testing.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Backup WordPress
- 1. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Backup WordPress Chris Jean @chrisjean chrisjean.com
- 2. Who is this presentation for? Bloggers and business owners that run their own sites
- 3. Web developers/designers that host and/or maintain client sites
- 4. What are backups? ” Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster (called disaster recovery). The second is to restore small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted. Data loss is also very common. 66% of internet users have suffered from serious data loss.” Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup
- 5. Qualities of a good WordPress backup Restore: The backup must be able to be restored back to the original or a different server.
- 6. Complete: The backup must be able to fully restore the site. This includes both the database and files.
- 7. Automation: Save time and prevent loss due to forgetting by making the backups automatic.
- 8. Duplication: Don't have a single point of failure. Can the backup can be easily (automatically?) copied to another location?
- 9. Wordpress Backup + WP DB Backup Files: Wordpress Backup Blog Traffic Exchange
- 10. www.blogtrafficexchange.com /wordpress-backup/ Database: WP DB Backup Austin Matzko (filosofo)
- 14. Wordpress Backup + WP DB Backup Site files will need to be manually uploaded to site via FTP or some other file upload method
- 15. Database export can be restored via phpMyAdmin (available in cPanel) and manually on the command line. Non-cPanel hosting tools may also have a database import utility. Great instructions on the WordPress Codex: codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup
- 16. Wordpress Backup + WP DB Backup Pros Both free plugins
- 17. Both can be scheduled
- 18. Easy to set up
- 19. Both provide ability to send backups via email Cons Neither plugin provides a restore capability
- 21. May not make full site backup
- 22. Automatic WordPress Backup Backs up files and database
- 23. Web Design Company, Inc
- 26. Automatic WordPress Backup Pros Backs up files and database
- 27. Stores backups in remote Amazon S3 storage
- 28. Can be automated Cons No restore ability
- 29. BackupBuddy Paid plugin by PluginBuddy
- 31. Backs up both database and files
- 33. BackupBuddy Pros Backs up both database and files
- 34. Able to send backups via email and FTP
- 35. Can be automated
- 36. Able to restore and migrate Cons Not free
- 37. Can have issues with large (1GB+) sites
- 38. VaultPress Paid service by Automattic
- 39. vaultpress.com
- 40. Backs up entire site
- 41. Monitors for site attacks and content spam
- 42. In active development, so full details are limited
- 44. VaultPress Pros Realtime backup of files and data
- 45. Backups stored on Automattic's storage cloud
- 46. Does more than just backups
- 47. Able to restore content and files Cons Not ready yet
- 48. Paid service
- 49. Backups are not available to user (not confirmed)
- 50. Other plugins to look at Bei Fen – Wordpress Backup Plugin wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bei-fen/
- 51. WP S3 Backups wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-s3-backups/
- 52. When to backup Do a full backup before a WordPress core or major plugin upgrade.
- 53. Do a full backup at least once a week.
- 54. Do a database backup, if possible, once a day.
- 55. Migration: The final piece of a solid backup plan WordPress migration is being able to restore a backup to a site using a different database prefix, domain, or site path.
- 56. Standard backups can only recreate the site exactly as it was. This means that a migration will have to be done manually.
- 57. Not only does migration allow for better protection against unknown factors, it allows for simple testing of backups.
- 58. Tips The WordPress Codex has a great article on this topic with a variety of techniques and tools: codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
- 59. If you lose some content (not images), try using a search engine's cache feature to retrieve the content.
- 60. Once a month, test your backups to make sure they are reliable.