WordPressBackup

Plugin version 0.3 – SelfTest and Limits for time and

New feature added – SelfTest

The plugin tries to simulate a connection to see if it works correctly. Here is an example of a “perfect reply”

plugin selftest perfection

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If you’re getting something else than {”test-reply”:”ok”} copy-paste the text in our contact form and send it to us with the subject ‘not working’. We’ll look into the matter.

Memory / Time Limits

For some of you that have alot of posts and/or comments the backup script would stop in the middle of the script. For others, it would error out when trying to set memory and time limits.

Plugin memory and time limits

These will default to “no” – means letting the server do it’s thing.

If you know what you’re doing and your script isn’t backing up (the @NO-END error in the backup log), try setting the time limit above 30 or/and memory limit above 6.  120 seconds and 12 megabytes should be enough for a medium-sized blog on a good (fast) host.

Posted in Development · January 18th, 2009 · Comments (0)

Public beta opened

Public beta opened due to too many e-mails received. We’re so busy implementing features that we don’t have the time to manually create so many accounts.

Posted in Development · January 18th, 2009 · Comments (6)

FAQ: Will the plugin break my site?

A few of the pre-beta-testers asked us how much do we test a function before we make it public, fearing we might break the blog with the plugin.

Our answer: 50+ servers with around 70 blogs with various plugins installed (last count was just shy of 60 different plugins). Most of the tests are automated: copy all the database to a local backup via mysql dump or other various methods, deactivate script, upload new version, upload secondary plugin with the test-function, run the test, re-download the database and look for changes. It takes a while but it’s worth it. Haven’t broken one single wordpress install since the second day of development.

Posted in General · January 18th, 2009 · Comments (0)

Option to select what tables to backup

Worried someone might steal your user info or your secret links? Just set the plugin to backup just the tables you want.

Simple!

Database backup options for WordPressBackup

Posted in Development · January 18th, 2009 · Comments (0)

Restoring from site disabled for the moment

We had some small issues with a few of the more well-known hosts and we intend to fix them before we re-enable the update. Right now you can download the backups (from the Backup -> Restore page) and import them using phpMyAdmin or your favourite database editor tool.

Posted in Development · January 17th, 2009 · Comments (0)

Started closed beta

Beta open!

Use the contact form to send me an e-mail if you want an account.

Posted in Development, General · January 14th, 2009 · Comments (0)