Blogging Disaster and The Recovery
As we should already aware, disaster come without knowing. We will only can react after disaster happening. There are no ways we can avoid disaster because it is a nature call. Therefore, we only can make some preparation so the harm impact reduces as much as we can, and it will make that we can recovery fast from any kind of disaster. Surely, the disaster will really harm for any people that have no any preparation according it. It will really hard to do disaster recovery if there are no any preparations that have been do. Or, I can say it is impossible to recover if there is no disaster preparation at all. Blogging is surely in that situation too.
Blogging disaster always can happen in our blogging life. Of course, disaster here is in term of blogger which is lost of our blog. Lost of our blog mean that lost of all blog data because of some faulty. The blogging disaster may because web hosting server fault or our own self fault. Blogging disaster will really make a headache if we do not have any preparation for it. All data will be lost and we must start it again from scratch. It will not so much harm if our blog just new one and do not make any big earn yet. But, it is surely a bid deal for blogger that already have an old blog with ton of great content and also big earn. This blogging disaster surely makes a big earn loss and it hard to rebuild the blog if there are no any preparations that do.
Backup WordPress Content Data
Of course, we should already make some preparation to face blogging disaster. I, my self, backup periodically my blog data into my laptop. I backup all data that needs to allow seamless blogging disaster recovery if I face blogging disaster. I do backup for some part of my blog data such as:
- Backup wp-config.php
- Backup wp-content folder
- Backup blogging script
- Backup .htaccess
Above for step is for complete preparation of WordPress content data. We can always only use some part of this content data when try to recover our blog but we save all of above four data for caution. We can only use blog theme data and blog plugin data (if it is already enough to recover our blog) which is part of “wp-content folder” in blogging disaster recovery.
Backup WordPress Blog Database
Backup Database is surely the most important thing that we must backup for blogging disaster recovery preparation. If we use WordPress as our blog engine, we can install “WP-DB-Backup” plugin. “WP-DB-Backup” plugin can provide auto backup for our blog in easy way. You can read my article Backup the WordPress Database for detail.
Backup Additional Script
Backup any additional script that already adds to optimize our blog is important. The additional script is such as CSS code. google analytic code, paid review code, google adsense code, and any other code that use in our blog. I my self always backup any code that I apply in my blog. I backup the entire code use notepad and save it in my laptop. This step is already did in first part above — Backup WordPress Content Data — but I write again here because need to have others backup of blogging script in different place (file) so we can manage our blogging script perfectly.
Conclusion
We sometime may face blogging disaster which is lost all our blog data. Therefore, we need some preparation so we can recover fast. The best way for it is backup all important data of our blog such as Blog Database, Plugins, Scripts, and Theme. We can always easily to recover our blog by using Fantastisco WordPress Installation if we have backup of WordPress content data,additional blog script, and blog Database. Yeah, we can easily install new blog with Fantastisco and then export the data that we backup into it, and our blog will recover in no time for sure.
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Nice article.Thanks for sharing the plugin , I guess its worth trying.
Sure, it is.
Not only backing up blog database, I think we should also do this tasks for all online activities. I see there are more and more services to back up and restore or sync data from social media profile. It’s worth.
Yeah, you are right. Each thing should have disaster recovery.
yeah backing up all your data is a good thing if such things happen..
yeah, for sure.
wp-backup plugin really helps u alot when some thing goes wrong with your blog..
yes, it is really helpful.
We don’t normally appreciate the “art” of backing up until a disaster happens
Yeah, we usually are late.
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve had a blog hacked before, and they wiped out everything. I had a database backup, but it was more than a month old, so I lost quite a bit. Definitely a lesson!
yeah, you should backup your data daily.
Backup complete, preparing backup for download…
but no windows download appear… whats problem if like this ?
try to change “/wp-content/backup-b4283/” permission be 777
Yes, i already used this method. this is very good idea for new blogger. thanks for your post.
Glad you like it.
Very useful post Dana. I think this will be SAVER for many blogger.
Thanks for sharing.
you’re welcome friend.
a stitch in time saves nine, its important to keep proper backup of database and settings of your blogs as disasters can happen anyday…
yeah, we all should prepare.
Great post, as usual… I started to take a backup of my blog from the day my blog suffered from a disaster when there was some errors in it and none of my blog photos were displayed. I tried to do all I can but was unable..
I was happy that at that time my blog only had 10-11 posts.. So there was not much work to do….
Start Backup, Save Block Up…..
Yeah, start backup now!
Great post… i like to make one more addition…. its better to get the copy of the backup to your own PC as well, because if the entire server goes down with the backups… we are doomed!
Yeah, sure we should have backup in our laptop.
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