Friday, March 21, 2014

How to Backup and Restore your wordpress blog

It is very important to keep the backup of your wordpress blog. The importance of this keeping backup is beyond description. Actually a victim who had suffered for the backup can realize the importance of this. I know about this because I am a sufferer of backup related problem. A hacker attacked my hosting company’s server. But the company had no backup.
So I had to loss all the data and information of my site. So keeping backup of Wordpress blog is very necessary. If you do so you’ll be able to restore your blog easily. Today we are going to share how you can keep the backup and restore your wordpress blog.

Wordpress is a popular contentment of to make website. You may know that wordpress run on MySQL database. So it is important to keep a backup for your database. Unfortunately if you loss your database, you can restore your blog with the backup database. So all you need to keep the backup of your database.

It can be good news for all that most of the hosting companies backup your website database. It is helpful for us. But if your hosting company loss its database accidently, what will you do then? So we would say you should not depend on others. You need to backup your wordpress blog database.

So, hopefully you are new clear about the importance of backup. You should save the backup of your database in several locations. You can backup your wordpress by following some ways. Just have a look to those ways of backup of wordpress blog.

cPanel Backup


You can backup your wordpress blog database from c panel. It is a very easy way. You can do this by going to your c panel. After entering into c panel you’ll find a option named “backup wizard”. You need to use this option to keep backup of your site. You can send the database of your wordpress blog to your email address. From the email inbox download it and save it in your hard disk.

Database back up plugins


To keep the backup of your wordpress blog you can use wordpress database backup plugins. It will keep the backup of your wordpress blog through regular update. You can download the backup or if you want you can send it to your email. Not only that but also you can save the backup to your hosting server. It is secured way to backup your wordpress blog and restore it.

WP Complete Back up


This is a useful wordpress plugin. You can use this plugin to keep the backup of your blog. It is very important for us. It will keep the backup of all the files and other databases. The plugin save this backup in different locations. You can download this in time of necessity from there.

Online wordpress backup


This is nothing but a simple tool to keep backup in online. In the above mentioned ways you can save your backup in your hard disk. But here, your backup will be saved in a website. So if you are outside of home you’ll be able to download your database backup from the website. So it is also a cool way to backup and restore your wordpress blog.

So if you follow the above mentioned ways, you’ll be able to keep the backup of your wordpress blog and restore it in time of necessity. Wish you all the best.