WP-DB-Backup: A must have WordPress plug-in.

3:00 PM in Blogging, Plug-ins, Reviews by Ankit Puri

If you are a regular reader of Extreme Trix, then you may remember that couple of days back our site was deleted while upgrading and it took me almost two days to again make it up. My site was deleted because of my carelessness only. Satish bro told me on first day only to always keep a backup of site so that you can re-store it if anything happens to site by mistake, but didn’t take that seriously and forgot to keep a backup. When I was upgrading my site to WordPress 2.8.6 from WordPress 2.8.1 accidentally my blog directory got deleted (where Extreme Trix is installed) and everything was gone. That time I felt really bad, but thanks to Google Cache which saved my work and time. Somehow I was able to restore my site because of Google Cache (Thank you again Google! ). I don’t want any of my reader to face some problem so today I thought to write about a plug-in for WordPress called – WP-DB-Backup which can be used to take a backup of Database.

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WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database. The best thing about this plug-in is you don’t need to take backup of your site regularly, just schedule a daily backup from setting page of the plug-in and it will be automatically emailed you or will be saved on your server.

Installation of the plug-in is very simple, just like a normal plug-in upload it to wp-content folder of your WordPress and activate it from Manage Plugins page of your blog. You may need to make /wp-content writable (at least temporarily) for it to create a backup directory. For example: $ cd /wordpress/ $ chgrp www-data wp-content (where “www-data” is the group your FTP client uses) $ chmod g+w wp-content.

If you have yet not installed this plug-in on your blog I will suggest you that to install it immediately. If you are already using this plug-in on your blog to take a backup, then if you don’t mind please share few words about it via comment.

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19 Comments »

http://colorsofnet.com Gaurav
This is a very important plugin, when ever one creates a blog they should implement it first on top priority.
http://www.techcats.net/ Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats
wp-db backup plugins comes handy when things gone wrong and helps webmasters in doing the background work..
http://yahoo.com/members/admin/ admin
Yup, you are right.
http://www.worthytips.com Arafat Hossain Piyada
This is really a must have plugin and I use it daily.
http://www.techno-pulse.com Basant Singh
Backup is a good advise for webmasters. Yet to find a easy way out for blogger platform.
http://techvilla.org Pavan Somu
These sort of plugins makes work easy. Nice find Ankit.
http://www.earth-org.com/blogs Pubudu Kodikara
Currently im making backups through WP-DB manager but for people who don’t use that plugin….. DB-Backup is a must have plugin…. you can’t say when and how things go wrong with your blog!
http://yahoo.com/members/admin/ admin
Me too.
http://www.jimyjack.com Jim Hardin
Definately a must plugin. I have recently added this plug in as I had another friend of mine almost loose their blog. Thankfully they used this plugin and had a backup.
Great information!
Jim
http://www.dezigndiva.com Mia
This was one of the first plugins I implemented when I first got on WP – and everyone else should install it as well , it will def help them from not ‘ Crying over lost work ‘ if anything ever happens
M.?
http://yahoo.com/members/admin/ admin
Yup! But I never took it seriously becoz of which my site got deleted.
http://techcrank.com Shubham
well Wp-optimize is also a must see..! Its awesome.!
http://yahoo.com/members/admin/ admin
Ok bro will surely give it a try on my new blog.
http://technascent.com Uttoran Sen
i like to do my backup manually, though its always good to keep a fresh backup from time to time specially at the time of upgrade. I had also faced similar situations in the past and now i don’t make any more mistakes lol, it becomes a real hard work otherwise…
http://yahoo.com/members/admin/ admin
Ya agree with you bro! Its a difficult task to make a deleted blog live again.
http://geekyheart.com Shailendra
thanks dude itz very useful plugin
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