WordPress backup – How to backup your WordPress blog just in 5 minutes – Why Backup is essential?

Posted by Deepak Vishwakarma on December 4th, 2011 Rating 9.0 —Outstanding

WordPress backup – How to backup your WordPress blog just in 5 minutes – Why Backup is essential?

Dear friend if you are a wordpress user then, I think no need to tell you the power of wordpress platform. Means wordpress is the most powerful tool for blogging and it is very easy to access for any newbie too. Anyone who has little bit knowledge of computer and internet too, can use it.

Well the most powerful feature is – it is easy to rank in search engines. I found differences between blogger and wordpress. When I write any one post and I check it for index just, I found it has been indexed by Google within seconds. On the other hand on blogger it takes a lot of time to rank.

So while it is so popular and powerful blogging tool. You also have to keep some safety tips about it because you have did hard work in writing and uploading and now your blog is so important – coz you are dragging a lot of traffic over there. So there is a need to make backup to time to time of your wordpress blog. The question how to backup your wordpress blog? I will solve here.

To make backup of wordpress blog is so easy but it is too difficult when you don’t have knowledge how to do it. When you Google ‘how to backup a wordpress blog’ found tons of links there, so create confusion. But don’t worry there are many tricks to do it.

But Here I will share the tip for easy wordpress backup. You can backup your wordpress blog just in 5 minutes or less. Please follow the instruction to make backup wordpress blog –

The trick I will give is to make back through a plugin. When you search plugin on wordpress related to wordpress backup, you found many plugins. But make sure all those are not effective. I searched a lot of plugins and installed it and found many of them do not work.
The plugin I use is WP DB Backup. This plugin has good rating and a large number of downloads. So please install it directly in wordpress or first download it on computer and then upload it from your cpanel.
After activating wp db backup plugin. You can see an option under tool section that is Backup. Click it you will go to plugin menu.
There will be three option download back to server, download back on computer and email back on mail id like this. Another option will be for scheduling. It is much important option to provide you much safety.
Select download on computer and then click backup. A progress window will appear to show you the number of percentage for backing up. When it goes to 100% your SQL file will be downloaded directly to your download folder.
Make sure you should now close or refresh window file backup progress otherwise it will be failed. Now you have backed up your wordpress blog within 5 minutes.

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Important –

Sometimes the Plugin WP DB backup does not work. Means it shows an error as I found in my blog. It was telling your backup directory is not writable. Go to your ftp account and create it yourself.

For this solution Go to your cpanel account under file manager Navigate it WP-content. Now click on new folder give it a name and change the permission to 777. Refresh the page and you are done. Now you can back up blog.

Another important thing is for scheduling option. Schedule your backup for weekly basis and fill your mail id, click on save. Setting will be saved, backup will be sent to your mail id weekly. A automatic system.