Writer’s Workshop: Keeping A Backup Copy
Blogging has been one of my passions since I started my first blog online back in 2004 when Monkey Boy was born. It has been almost 9 years since I have been actively blogging. A lot has changed since I started off as a blogging newbie.
Back then I was blogging on the blogger platform before switching over to WordPress.com and now on this self hosted WordPress blog.
I have learned a lot since I made my 1st step into the world of blogging. I know now the importance of having a back up for the blog and also backups for the template and other in both my hard drive and also a copy stored in Dropbox. It would certainly save me the trouble of redoing everything from scratch when I had to move my blog from one server to another when I had to change hosting.
Nowadays everything is online and not in hard copy. It pays to be prudent and have a few back up copies in different places so in the case that the blog is attacked by virus or gets hacked. I triple save everything now. – Hard disk, dropbox and via e-mail. I also do a photo book yearly so that we have a hard copy to look back on when the kids grow up
Do you keep a backup copy of your blog?
Are your copies online or offline?
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August 2, 2012 @ 9:07 pm
Great idea!! Thanks for the tip!
August 2, 2012 @ 9:48 pm
I’ve never bothered to find out about backing up my blog, but maybe I should. Will look up how to backup my wordpress.com blog. Thanks for the tip. 🙂
August 2, 2012 @ 10:09 pm
That photo is so cute!! Great post!
August 2, 2012 @ 10:35 pm
You are so right. This is what I need to work on.
August 2, 2012 @ 10:39 pm
Great post ~ very true ~ i do back up my blog and older one is offline ~ need to do more of that ~ wondering how you like the self hosting WordPress blogging?thanks for coming by ~ namaste, (A Creative Harbor) on Blogger
August 2, 2012 @ 10:51 pm
This is definitely a good idea. I just started blogging but it’s better to save all documents right now before I’ll regret for something like this to happen to me. Thanks Dominique! 🙂
August 2, 2012 @ 11:19 pm
I have blogging since 2004 as well. I started out on live journal then Yahoo 360 then Multiply and finally landed here. I have a thumb drive dedicated to my blog as well as on my hard drive. I have recently be able to print all my entries and placed them in a binder and find it enjoyable to read back once in a while to see what I was doing and how I was feeling.
August 2, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
Good advice. The only back-up I have is the blog books I publish. Better than nothing, but wouldn’t help me recreate the blog if it were lost.
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August 3, 2012 @ 12:36 am
I can see this is an excellent tip since a few days ago I just spent all day writing a post only to not be able to find it when i wanted to publish it the next morning. Lost in Cyberspace never to be found again. so frustrating
good tip.
hi from mk’s
August 3, 2012 @ 1:14 am
I really should, but I haven’t done that yet.
August 3, 2012 @ 2:13 am
oh, I would like to triple-backup my stuff but I think I would forget to do so. anyway, I think the server that your blog is hosted on is already being backup so I think in a way, you’re are backing up 4x instead of 3.
have a great day.
August 3, 2012 @ 3:10 am
Great tip! I really need to backup all my work so I don’t have to redo it if anything happens.
August 3, 2012 @ 4:14 am
Yikes! I need to do a backup…
August 3, 2012 @ 1:20 pm
Ahh he is so cute!
1. I don’t but I should. Well I do back up on the blogger part of the blog.
2. It’s on my computer. I think I should get a disc copy too.
Aloha 🙂
August 3, 2012 @ 5:22 pm
My host keeps a back up of my blog I hope it’s enough coz they’re so expensive. LOL!
I love dropbox, I got free space because two signed up under my name.
August 3, 2012 @ 7:22 pm
This is a great reminder. Been thinking of creating another dropbox account intended only for my blogs. But I still don’t know yet how. Though my host is doing it already, I still see it necessary to have my own also. 🙂
August 3, 2012 @ 9:35 pm
Good point you have there. I am actually right in the process of doing my due-diligence back-up wise. I have now an online plan to back up my zillions of photos and just purchased another external hdd to make a second/third copy when I download my pics. It is sooo important, but we just like to push it away from us, until…
Thank you for the reminder!
August 4, 2012 @ 2:37 am
Just began blogging this year…now must consider options♫♪
August 4, 2012 @ 2:14 pm
1) I keep a back-up on my computer, but that reminds me that I need to do another one for this month. I should do it more often, but of course I always wait too long in between
2) It is offline, although you mentions drop box, I never had the need for it on the run, so I don’t include it in my drop box, but I guess it doesn’t hurt.
August 6, 2012 @ 7:40 am
Hi There 🙂
How do you back up to DropBox? You mentioned you also back up your templates…How? I have heard so much about this but don’t know how to do it. Please help! Thanks so much!
Blissful Blessings, Nicki G. The Blissful Wife
http://www.blissfulvida.com
August 6, 2012 @ 7:49 am
@Niki,
I export the .xml file from my wordpress by downloading it to my PC then dropping it in dropbox. I’m using self hosted wordpress so I download the zip of the templete which I use.
August 6, 2012 @ 8:05 am
Thanks for your reply 😉 I have a self-hosted Word Press site too! I am gonna look it up and start doing it! Thanks so much for posting this and giving me the necessary push!
August 14, 2012 @ 3:43 am
We do a nightly automatic back-up.
I am still laughing over the expression on your son’s face!
What a kute picture!
Thanks for sharing the advice and the laugh.
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