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If not… you better get it.
If you stopped by earlier you may have noticed the site was down. There’s nothing to get the blood flowing at 6 am better than a site that’s down and a help desk that doesn’t open until 9am.
Those three hours leave plenty of time for your mind to go crazy and your entire business model to flash before your eyes and leave you wondering “what the hell are you thinking?”.
While I was trying not to panic over the site being down my mind was playing some crazy tricks on me. You know that fantastic “what if…” game! Do you know it?
What if…
the site is really gone. poof.
and from there a million other panic inducing scenarios play out. However, the one thing I knew in the back of my mind was this.
At least the entire site is BACKED UP.
If worse comes to worst and the site has vaporized into the ethers I have a copy of the site as recent as last Wednesday that I can put back together.
How?
Hell if I know, but I’m sure I could find someone that does.
I do know, I have a back up zip file that gets sent to me every Wednesday. It comes to my gmail address where it gets filed away just in case.
How did I get that backup zip file?
Super simple. A neat little plugin does it all for me.
WordPress Database Backup ~ that’s what it’s called.
It installs just like any other plugin. You go in and tell it what and how often you want it to back up and how you would like that backup sent to you and then it’s done.
I personally have it go to a gmail account (because of the file size that gets sent and everything is archived in gmail I can always find it later).
I have mine set to a weekly update. Every Wednesday I get a zip file of my site sent to me.
So if you’re seeing this post now ~ I obviously didn’t have to find someone to figure out what to do with my backup zip file ~ but I did have the peace of mind knowing I had it.
I suggest ~ you add that plugin to all of your sites ~ just in case.
You might open a gmail account JUST for those updates to go to ~ then you’ll know exactly where they all are if/when God Forbid you ever need them.
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I just don’t want to take a chance. I have backed up my blog twice before and I know that it worked. But, it took some time so this plugin is nice.
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