Most bloggers stress the importance of backups but have lackluster systems in place themselves. Luckily, because of WordPress’ brilliant community there are plugins available to help even the laziest of bloggers. But I must point out that there are far more advanced backup systems that you may want to explore as your blog grows.
In the early days restoring from a day old backup is not that big of a deal, but if you’re posting multiple times per day or get a large amount of comments then a tool such as rsync for fast and incremental backups may be worth looking into. In most cases that setup isn’t particularly feasible however, which is why the system I’ll describe is the best choice for most WordPress users. Keep Reading →
