February 2012 Meetup Slides: Backing Up Your WordPress Site
February 27, 2012 in Meetup Slides by Sallie Goetsch
Without backups, you could lose your entire website. This meetup covered four ways to back up your WordPress database and files:
- Manually, via phpMyAdmin and FTP and through your hosting control panel
- Using the BackupBuddy plugin from iThemes, presented by Sallie Goetsch.
Why you’d use it: scheduling, offsite backups, comprehensive, easy site migration, easy restore, server scan and new malware scan feature. - Using the VaultPress service from Automattic, presented by Anca Mosoiu.
Why you’d use it: from the makers of WordPress, allowed by Page.ly and managed hosting services, up-to-the-minute backups, easy DB restore, security scans, lots of stats. - Using the free BackWPup plugin by Daniel Husen, presented by Pieter Hartsook.
Why you’d use it: free, more offsite backup locations than BackupBuddy, good scheduling options, easy DB restore.
There are many other WordPress backup plugins that we did not have time to cover.
