#wordpress backup

The rest that followed was some sort of reality check and yet another lesson in making backups of backups. I immediately checked for the internal backups and found out that not all accounts had the latest copy. This blog specifically did not have a complete backup. Apparently, the huge account size (2.6GB) prevented the automated backup service to complete the daily backups. I still have the monthly backups and I could start from there but that would mean that I'll lose several weeks of entries or at most about a month. It reminded me that despite the multiple automated backups, one should also consider regular local backups. For WordPress blogs, this would mean downloading the Themes and Plugins folder, the Uploads inside WP-Content and a full DB backup (there's a plugin for this one) and download. Doing this once every week-end should do as well as downloading your daily posts using feedreader clients such as FeedDemon might spare you some headache when the time comes your backups fail on you. Read more in our articles including "Do you make local backups of your blog?" and "Google Drive and Photos apps for PCs will shut down by 2018".