[wp-hackers] How do you guys back up Wordpress sites?

[Hal Burgiss]

rsync filesystem and mysqldump to different location, multiple times per
day. Code is always in a local git repo too (backed up of course).


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Jamie Currie <jamie at wunderdojo.com> wrote:

> Totally agreed. Started using BackupBuddy a couple of years ago and it's
> worth every penny. Have it sync'ing 30+ sites into Dropbox doing db backups
> daily and full site backups weekly. If worst comes to worst I can spin
> everything back up on a fresh server in under 30 minutes with minimal data
> loss.
>
> Jamie Currie
> CEO www.wunderdojo.com
>
>
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>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   Hi all,
>>>
>>>  How do you guys back up Wordpress sites? Do you just back
>>>  up the /var/www/blog (or whatever) and then use mysqldump to back up
>>>  the Wordpress database?
>>>
>>>  Would the preceding work on a server where you're just one of many
>>>  users (like Bluehost, etc)? If not, how do you do it there, and how do
>>>  you test the restorability of your backup?
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>
>>>  SteveT
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Hal