Don’t Make the Mistake of Forgetting to Backup Your Blog

January 4, 2008
By: Drew Meyers
Author's Website: http://www.zillow.com

Most bloggers know blogging (read: good writing) is hard work and consumes a LOT of time. As a blogger who has spent well over a hundred hours creating content for both my blog and the blogs I contribute to on behalf of Zillow, I realize the importance of regularly backing up that content. Don’t let 2008 be the year that a hardware or database failure results in a complete loss of the content you spent hours creating. One option at your disposal is BlogBackupOnline, which is in BETA and gives you 5 megabytes of storage for free. You can learn more about it here.

Don’t worry, I’m guilty too — I don’t backup my blog (but, seriously, this is the year I will).

BlogBackupOnline is most certainly not the only option at your disposal. For you Wordpress bloggers, there is all sorts of help content regarding backing up data on Wordpress.

[via April Groves at Agent Genius]

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Jason Brown

Thanks for keeping backing things up at the forefront of my mind - most of us do far too little planning for such failures.

April Groves

Drew,

I sure wish this learning experience had occurred another way other than my own personal mishap :)

At any rate, thanks for the Wordpress link. It has moved up to the top of my things to check out.

Drew Meyers

I just backed up the content of geekestate after writing this post.

next up - the CoRE and my personal blog

Chantal

Thank you for this advice. Are there any complications in backing up a blog? Or anything we should look for specifically?

Ken @ Realivent

This is a great tool Drew! One more easy way to keep a back up is to export your blog files to your local computer periodically. This way you have a local copy that can be imported if necessary.

Steve Belt

I know first hand how scary not having a backup can be. I accidentally deleted my blog, only to find my latest backup wasn't as recent as I would have liked.

I now have my blogged backed up and emailed to me every day. I keep 2 copies in my backup blog email folder at all times. On top of that, I backup the server the blog is on daily to an external hard drive.

But it took the pain of making that mistake to finally kick my own butt into gear. Learn from my mistake. Here's the wordpress plug-in I use:

http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/

Use it!