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No More Pain And Humiliation From
Losing Your Most Valuable Data –
Use These Reliable Backup Resources

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No More Pain And Humiliation From Losing Your Most Valuable Data – Use These Reliable Back Up Resources



There Is Nothing Worse Than
Losing Important Data And
Then Realizing That You Were
Stupid Not To Back It Up



It used to be that all I worried about was backing up my blog posts and database.


That was until Google disabled one of my most important email accounts and created a nightmare for me.


Now, I realize that all sorts of data and valuable content that I created needs to be backed up like:

  1. Computer files


  2. Any other databases


  3. Blog posts


  4. Facebook profile


  5. Online email and social network accounts

Internet marketing guru, Denise Wakeman, offered an excellent post where she went into detail naming specific resources to use in the above 5 areas.


Avoid Humiliating Data Loss -Backup Your Data


After reading the post I immediately signed up for Backupify – Limited Time Free Offer


What backup resources do you use that you think highly of??


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This Free Plugin Saved Me From The Disaster
Of Losing My Most Important Blog Post

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This Free Plugin Saved Me From The Disaster Of Losing My Most Important Blog Post



Take Out This Insurance
Policy On Your Blog’s Data
With A WordPress Plugin That
Automates The Backup Process



Without a doubt one of the worst disasters you can suffer is to lose all of your blog’s data through an accident or stupidity.


Believe me, I have lost precious blog posts due to both causes.


Fortunately, I had a wondrous free WordPress plugin installed when both disasters occured, and it was a routine process to restore the data.


You must backup your blog data!


Here’s a link to a WordPress plugin developed by Austin Matzko.

WordPress Database Backup


Everything is taken care of in 3 easy steps:

  1. Install the plugin
  2. Choose the WordPress tables to save
  3. Save data on server or sent to you by email
    (Mine is sent by email DAILY)

When I suffered my first disasterous data loss, I mistakenly thought all I had to do was copy and paste the lost post from the backup files onto my blog.


But what is really involved is that you have to restore the WordPress tables in your MySql database.


Already I know I have scared some people to death because of the technical language.


But as one technophobe to another I can assure you the restoration of data is a very simple process
even the technologically illiterate can master.


Here’s the link to a page that lays out the simple steps involved:

Blog Database Backup Instructions


A quick word about the visual tutorial available at Podz’ WordPress Restore guide


–The warning in the red box about the /wp-content/cache directory does not apply to all versions of WordPress, since I could not locate such a directory in my WordPress 2.6.1 version.


To “Login to phpMyAdmin you first have to click the MySql link on the cpanel control panel.


Also, be sure to back up (download to a hard drive/flash drive/CD) your existing WordPress tables once logged into phpMyAdmin before you do anything else.


Good luck! Hope you never have to use the backup files due to disaster.


If you have any WordPress blogging friends, take a preventive step and email them the link to this blog post:


http://TrafficNymphomaniac.com/?p=1141


Thanks.


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