Comments on: Web Site Breakage, Web Site Fixage http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/09/26/web-site-breakage-web-site-fixage/ A clean, well-lighted blog. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:57:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 by: brem http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/09/26/web-site-breakage-web-site-fixage/#comment-242 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:43:03 +0000 http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/09/26/web-site-breakage-web-site-fixage/#comment-242 indeed. my solution is only half the solution. I post a lot of pictures and other media myself... so ultimatly, a good old general backup of the tree branch is probably the only long term solution. Do you have access to the dashboard where your website is hosted? On my host program, I have a place where I can generate a tar.gz of all my public_html files. The only thing I would need to automate is the transfert of this info through email. That's quite big, so I don't know how I would do that. and I also don't know what would be a good frequency. Anyway... good luck ;) brem indeed.
my solution is only half the solution. I post a lot of pictures and other media myself… so ultimatly, a good old general backup of the tree branch is probably the only long term solution. Do you have access to the dashboard where your website is hosted? On my host program, I have a place where I can generate a tar.gz of all my public_html files. The only thing I would need to automate is the transfert of this info through email. That’s quite big, so I don’t know how I would do that. and I also don’t know what would be a good frequency.

Anyway… good luck ;)

brem

]]> by: Jim http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/09/26/web-site-breakage-web-site-fixage/#comment-240 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:59:18 +0000 http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/09/26/web-site-breakage-web-site-fixage/#comment-240 That's a good suggestion, but I upload a lot of photos, and so I need a backup strategy that includes my entire home directory. I also need something that can be scheduled by a cron job, can run without user interaction, and can backup multiple WordPress sites in a single archive. It won't be too hard for me to write a script to make such backups and download them to my home computer. But thanks for the suggestion. That’s a good suggestion, but I upload a lot of photos, and so I need a backup strategy that includes my entire home directory. I also need something that can be scheduled by a cron job, can run without user interaction, and can backup multiple WordPress sites in a single archive. It won’t be too hard for me to write a script to make such backups and download them to my home computer. But thanks for the suggestion.

]]> by: brem http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/09/26/web-site-breakage-web-site-fixage/#comment-239 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:52:51 +0000 http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/09/26/web-site-breakage-web-site-fixage/#comment-239 Might I suggest you use the WP-Database-Backup plug-in from Skippy.net? Use it with Wp-Cron. I've installed it on my own wordpress instance, and it emails me daily backups of the mysql database, mind you, not the whole website. so at least, the "important" content is not lost. http://www.skippy.net/blog/plugins/ It haven't had to use the backups yet, but I like the fact that they end up in my inbox dayly. On a side note, if that makes you feel any better, we got the rests of Rita in Quebec City today, she was even bad enough that she flooded parts of my neighborhood... sheesh... not a good season. brem Might I suggest you use the WP-Database-Backup plug-in from Skippy.net? Use it with Wp-Cron. I’ve installed it on my own wordpress instance, and it emails me daily backups of the mysql database, mind you, not the whole website. so at least, the “important” content is not lost.

http://www.skippy.net/blog/plugins/

It haven’t had to use the backups yet, but I like the fact that they end up in my inbox dayly.

On a side note, if that makes you feel any better, we got the rests of Rita in Quebec City today, she was even bad enough that she flooded parts of my neighborhood… sheesh… not a good season.

brem

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