If you have your own hosted WordPress blog it is very important to back up WordPress. It may not happen often but things can and do go wrong. Your host might fail, your WordPress installation could get hacked or you might have made an error and need to roll things back to the way they were before. So just to be safe back it up. Its easy to do and doesn’t cost anything so there is no reason not to.
Here are some tools to make it easier and carefree:
Use this plugin to back up, restore and optimize your database. Optimizing is a great feature because it will help your WordPress blog run faster and more efficiently especially as your blog grows larger in size. You can schedule your backups and have them stored on server or emailed to you. Basically this is a set and forget type of solution I like. I’m sure you will too. Additional features include things like dropping and emptying tables are also available, but use these with extra caution and always use the backup feature first.
With this plugin you can backup, optimize, repair your WordPress database. This will back up your database on server or email it to you just like the other plugins I mentioned here. What’s even more special about it is it has a few more back up options up its sleeve. Additional backup locations that include back up to another FTP server, Google Storage, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace Cloud, SugarSync, Dropbox, and Amazon S3 accounts.
This is a subscription based service created by the people who created WordPress. This service includes a number of other features including easy backups, restore, security monitoring, concierge service and support. You can actually witness the VaultPress service working from the dashboard.
VaultPress is still brand new and the developers are adding new features to it all the time so you may just want to make this part of your WordPress tool box.
