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11 Nov

Posted by Lucrative Blogging as Tactical Tips

Backup are so useless when not in use, it take up space and make you worry. Since my data need to be backup, then what about my backup’s data. Isn’t it needed to be backup too?

Everybody know the important of doing backup our data, yet most of them don’t practice it. Then when will be the best time to do the backup? There is a saying - people always do backup at the following day after they lost it. The good thing about it is that there isn’t much to be backup, so lesser work to be done.

Sometime ago, I was chatting with an IT expert, he is a die hard fans of LUNIX. He owned about 2.5Tb of data in 5 HDDs (Hard Disk Drive). In the event of one HDD crash, the backup system he used is capable of retrieve back all his data from the remaining 4 HDDs. Once the HDD is replaced, he will get back his 100% data again. What a cool system.

When you keep seeing post, statement and articles regarding backing data. It means a ‘sign’ to take action to do it asap. I found this post from http://www.atomicbloggingsecret.com/very informative and useful, enjoy.

Remember to Backup your Files.

Many newbies are unaware of the importance of backing up files. Backups should be done once a week,fortnight or at a higher frequency if you are posting daily. Even if you think the chances of your site getting hacked is remote, just play it safe. You never know when that butter-finger of yours one fine day may decide to delete some postings or files.

A fellow blogger whose web hosting company migrated to another server completed the maintenance work minus a week postings which was significant since sometimes he blogs more than once daily. After alot of hard work himself he managed to restore the missing blogs using his backup files.

Hostgator is one of the reliable web hosting companies in the market which I am comfortable with.

Here is a simple way of backing up your file in your cpanel account which will backup the entire site.

Go to your cpanel – http://www.yourwebsitename.com/cpanel

- In the main screen click on Backups
- Click on the link (Generate/Download a full Backup)
- “Backup Destination” label will show “Home Directory“
- Make sure your email that is displayed is up-to-date.
- Click on “Generate Backup“

If you are on WordPress and do not have cpanel install the WP backup plugin.

Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/installation and click on Download Plugin.
Open the zip file and extract wp-db-backup.php and upload it into /wp-content/ using filezilla or other ftp program which you may already have.
Back to your WordPress site and activate the plugin under the Plugins menu.
Next click the Manage menu and then click on Backup where you schedule your backups. Note any error messages prompted and act upon it for a successful backup.