Once upon a time a server my blog was on hiccuped, and I lost everything. Everything amounted to five months worth of blog entries. Not much by any means, but those were five months of my life documented in writing, gone forever. My host had no backups, which infuriated me. But I was also angry at myself for not taking responsibility for something that meant a lot to me.
I learned my lesson, and immediately wrote myself a post-it note, reminding myself to download a copy of my website once a week.
If you’re using WordPress, you won’t have to leave yourself post-it notes and go through the hassle of making backups. It can do it for you, with a handy plugin called WordPress Database Backup. This plugin requires a simple file upload and activation, and then you’re set to browse to its administration panel. From there, you can specify that a backup be made of all of your posts, comments, categories and links, and any other optional tables (usually containing information generated by other WordPress plugins), and uploaded to the server or emailed to you, on a daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis. You can also download backups on the fly.
This is one of my most favorite WordPress plugins, because it saves my ass in the event that my blog goes down and my host doesn’t have backups.
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