Digital Oasis

I run a number of Wordpress sites around the web, including the official Synn Studios Inc. blog, the Synndicus site, the iN Magazine site, and the blog you’re currently reading, Digital Oasis.

Trying to maintain a backup schedule for numerous blogs is a full-time job if you’ve got to do it all manually.

Thankfully, backing up your Wordpress database is made simple by installing and using the Wordpress plugin wp-db-backup. This handy plugin lets you download a copy of your Wordpress database at that moment or schedule a backup to happen automatically. For my sites, I choose the latter.

A typical Wordpress database backup is quite small and is easily E-Mailed. Once the plugin is installed, I set wp-db-backup to E-Mail my Gmail account a zipped copy of the database every day.

From there, I set up a Gmail mail filter to automatically Archive and label the zip as a backup. Whenever I need to restore a backup, I just open my Gmail and click the “Backups” label.

What sort of tools or plugins have you found to help you maintain your Wordpress sites?