One thing that has been bugging me since moving my blog to GoDaddy for hosting, is the PITA that MySQL backups have become. Back when I was on the Learning Commons’ webserver, I could just create a crontask to dump the MySQL tables every morning. No SSH or shell access to my GoDaddy account means using a web interface to backup, which is less than automatable.
WordPress to the rescue! There’s a WordPress Database Backup Plugin that can easily download or email database backups to you, and when tied with WP-Cron (a cron-like plugin for automating stuff), it’s fully automatable! I now have daily database backups gzipped and emailed to my GMail account for safe keeping.
I heart WordPress…
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I am looking for similar functionality for Drupal. There are some modules that have cron-like MySQL backups, but I was looking for something VERY simple, with point-and-click installation ease. Can you help me out?
I’d love something like that myself! AFAIK, Boris Mann (at Bryght) was thinking about a plugin to do this, but I don’t think he’s started a project for it yet.
I didn’t realize just how comforting it is knowing that I have reliable and automated backups of the full database – something that wasn’t possible with my hosting situation before this email-backup plugin.
i was just doing a google search on this plugin – you’ll be happy to know that you came up in the top 10 results for “wordpress database backup plugin”. LOL. that’s all…
This plugin is indeed very useful. God knows how many times my WP db has crashed.