Wordpress backup

[webbyrobster]

Hey guys,

Which are the best plugins to backup Wordpress? When I say backup I mean everything from the DB, tables to draft posts.

Also automation would be good :)

Thanks,

Rob.

[chipbennett]

Personally, I think BackupBuddy (commercial Plugin from the iThemes folks) is the hands-down best choice currently.

Another option is "Automatic WordPress Backup" (available in the Repository).

Both of these Plugins handle both DB and file backup. There are other Plugins that will handle DB-only backups.

[chipbennett]

I also just found this one: BackWPup (also in the Repository). It seems to be under current development, and support (via the WPORG support forums). Might have to give it a test-spin.

[alexrodriguez]

I use VaultPress and it is solid!

[Jeffro]

I use BackupBuddy and it's worked flawlessly for me since I've purchased it. I can control when and what is backed up and the rest is automated. If you can afford it, VaultPress is a handy service to use for backing up.

[sridhar]

Another vote for BackupBuddy.

I develop sites locally and restore them online in 5 minutes using BackupBuddy. It takes care of everything - WordPress, database, migration of URLs, widget data, layouts (if theme provides them) etc.

[wycks]

I use a cron + a rubygem. I know it's not a backup plugin, it's better.

[Ryan]

Welcome to the forum wycks :)

I've also contemplated the cron approach. It seems more sensible than using a plugin, albeit slightly more winded way of doing it. Do you know of any PHP applications for doing it? I assume there's something out there for it.

[wycks]

Ryan
Welcome to the forum wycks :)

Thanks:)

I think it's probably the wrong approach to use php , at least if your have OS/ Root access. It already has an easy to use built in cron ( crontab), you can certainly call if from a php script, but I prefer not taking the risk or re-inventing the wheel.

A lot of people don't think of ruby when running wordpress, but at the server level it has some really incredible easy to use tools.

I wrote a tutorial on how to use the 'backup rubygem' , after using this, I don't see myself ever using anything else.

It zips, emails, backs up to s3, dropbox, rackspace, ftp, encrypts, etc, etc, and takes about 2minutes to setup ( if you have ruby already). I use it for WordPress but it works with anything.

The gem is here: https://github.com/meskyanichi/backup

I can link my tutorial if your interested, for instance this is what my backup looks like to amazon s3 ( backs-up sql, wordpress root folder, a directory outside the wordpress root, and my apache logs). Also It only backs up changed files ( saves bandwidth).

every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do
**command "backup perform -t back_it_up_baby"
end

[Ryan]

But can't you use a Cron job to load a PHP script instead of a Ruby script? That way I wouldn't need to install Ruby on the server.