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

[Shasta Willson]

I always store a backup away from the hosting account, "just in case".

BackupBuddy (not free) is an absolutely brilliant utility. It not only
makes backups automatic, including sending them to remote storage if you
have it, but it will do all of the database editing when you change a
domain (such as going from localhost development to the live server.) Worth
every single penny if you have more than a site or two to deal with, IMO. I
started looking into other products sold by the company because I'm so
rarely as impressed with the quality of software as I have been with BB.
http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/

I'm not affiliated with BB in any way. ;-)

- Shasta


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:24 AM, 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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