#back to the future shoes

In celebration of Back to the Future Day (October 21, 2015), Nike has officially introduced the 2015 Nike Mag - the real-life version of the futuristic self-tying sneakers worn by Marty McFly in the film Back to the Future Part II in 1989. 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. 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 "Nike intros 2015 Nike Mag with real "power laces"" and "Do you make local backups of your blog?".