WordPressBackup

How to backup your blog

Short version

1. Install the WordPressBackup Plugin (from this site or wordpress.org)
2. Activate/enable the plugin
3. Create a user here
4. Add your site on the backup list
5. Go back to what you’re doing, your data is safe.

Long version

It sounds like a lot of work but it won’t take you more than a few minutes

1. Install the WordPressBackup Plugin (from this site or wordpress.org)
2. Activate/enable the plugin
3. You now have a new main menu in the administration area, called ‘wpBackup’, with a subpage with options
4. Go to the options page, set or re-generate a site key
5. Disable or enable restoring. We suggest disabling the restore until you need it. We misclicked the restore button a few times and went ‘Ooops!’ ‘Hey, it works!’.
6. Open http://www.wordpressbackup.com/backup/
7. Create a new user
8. You will receive an e-mail with an activation code
9. Go back to Open http://www.wordpressbackup.com/backup/
10. Click Activate account
11. Enter your user name and activation key
12. You will be logged in
13. Click the Sites submenu
14. Click ‘+Add a site’
15. Enter a name for your site
16. Enter the web address (like http://www.my-blog.com/ or http://www.mysie.com/blog/). Please don’t forget that the address should end with a /, like “my-blog.com/” and not “my-blog.com”
17. Enter the wordpress key – THE KEY THAT YOU HAVE SET IN YOUR PLUGIN ON YOUR BLOG, NOT THE ACCOUNT ACTIVATION KEY YOU GOT IN THE E-MAIL WITH THE NEW ACCOUNT (you can see the field with the wordpress key in the picture)
18. Click Add it
19. (you can click TEST to see if we can reach your site. if it doesn’t say it’s ok use the contact form and send us your account name and site and we will look into it – we usually “fix” things in about a hour)
20. You’re done. The site will be put in the backup queue and will be backed up

Backup error “no-reply” ? Try the “root file” api setting:

(useful becasue there are some people that have the blog set up to not run scripts from the plugins folder)

To go around this:

• create a file named wpbdc.php and put the following code in it

<?php
if(is_file('wp-content/plugins/wordpressbackup/wpbdc.php'))
{
	define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
	if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) {
		$wp_did_header = true;
	}
	require_once('wp-load.php');
	require_once('wp-content/plugins/wordpressbackup/wpbdc.php');
}
?>

• Next, upload it to your server, in your blog root (the folder where the wp-config.php is).
• Login to wordpressbackup.com, select your site and choose the ROOT FILE api method.

… encrypt the data?

Read on the encryption feature page.

January 15th, 2009 · Comments (0)