How To Back up your blog?

You have spent a lot of money on domain and web hosting and build a great blog for the people. You don’t want to loose it any time if there is problem from hosting provider or else from your side. To be safe from such problems back up of your blog is important. It makes us our blog survive. I have come across such situations so I experienced the importance of having back up of your blog. Having back up of your blog simple and if you loose important data of your blog anytime you can upload the blogs database, theme files and customizations. Saving and uploading these things will replace our blog completely.

They are basic things we need to have to have proper backup.

1) Wordpress back up plugin

2) FTP client ( To save imp files when you want)

Wordpress Back up Plugin :-

This plugin can be downloaded for free. It is must have plugin for any wordpress blog. This is the advantage of having wordpress blog. You can download one from here . If you want you can back up just for now then you can download it to your computer, server or email database to your email address. You can choose which should be downloaded. Select the options and download it.

If you want to skip the above step and do the database back up automatically for you then you can enter your email to which you want back up. You can choose for how many days the back up have to be done. It is better to choose daily option, so that you can have back up of database on daily basis. I have chosen to have back up on daily basis. When ever if some damage happens to your blog then you can replace the blog just by uploading the database. You can upload the database by going to your hosting account in MySql section.

Downloading Theme files Through FTP:-

If you have did not change anything in theme files then you can leave it. You don’t need to download theme files. But if you have made any customizations to your theme files then you can download the theme files via FTP client like FileZilla. When you upload the downloaded theme files it will replace all the customizations you have before the damage of your blog. For example now I have installed free UBD money maker theme, I need not download it if I did not make any changes to it, but here I have made some customizations so I will download it.

Besides downloading all these files you must also download the sub-url’s or sub-domains by going to .htaccess located in your hosting account.By downloading the sub-url’s you can replace the archives of your blog or else you will loose it.So start back up of your blog to avoid things in future.