Will O'Brien over at our sister site Engadget has written a great
guide to backing up your blog. It's a Linux-centric view of getting a secure, automated backup system set up that will preserve not only your posts, comments, etc., but also all of your blog's files, including themes, media, etc. Will recommends you have the following before attempting his method:
- A webhost with SSH (secure shell) access
- A machine to backup to (we prefer Linux or FreeBSD, but you can use Windows with cygwin if you must)
- Internet/network access between the two machines
- ssh, rsync and cron installed on the backup machine
Tags: backup, blog, blogging, engadget, howto, security
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Subscribe to commentsMattJun 7th 2006 2:08PM
Or, if you use Wordpress, you can use a plugin and a GMail account:
http://davebgimp.com/2005/08/11/daily-backups-for-wordpress-with-gmail/
Jordan RunningJun 7th 2006 2:32PM
Great tip, Matt. Thanks!
autosAug 11th 2006 3:57AM
Thank you Jordan, Matt and Will O'Brien.
Will O'Brien tips are very useful, but Matt's tip is great because we don't have to know Linux.
I used to save all files from my blogs on my PC, but now I have another alternative using Gmail, also a very good service.