Technical Blogging

Back Up Your Content

You work hard to write your content, so wouldn’t it be a shame if it were lost? I can’t stress enough how important it is to back up your blog’s content.

Your hosting company may offer you backup solutions for a fee. Take advantage of such options if possible. What you are really interested in is saving the database that contains your posts as well as the folders where you store images and other files (e.g., wp-content in WordPress).

To save the database, you can perform a dump of the data (e.g., using mysqldump) in a file and then upload it to multiple safe places (e.g., on S3, locally, and in a Dropbox folder).

Recipe 14

Have at least three backups in different places.

For WordPress, check out a plugin called WP-DBManager, ...