If you aren’t currently making frequent backups of your WordPress blogs, you may want to consider it. The day may soon come when you’ll regret not taking a few minutes to set it up automatically. You’ll want to backup your WordPress blogs for the same reason you should be backing up your hard drive.

I spent a few hours over the weekend tweaking some blogs and adding posts to be made for the coming week just like usual. The next day I noticed the posts and the changes had mysteriously disappeared as if I’d never done anything. Neither I nor my host has any idea what happened to the work I did but it’s gone. It’s like one of those unsolved Bermuda Triangle mysteries where things just disappear. The bottom line is that I had to do all that work again. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. That sucked.

Interestingly, a well-known Internet marketer made a similar post on his blog recently. Sooner or later it happens to everyone. It’s really a matter of “when” not “if”. In any event, I did my usual 5 second research of typing in “backup wordpress blog” into my favorite search engine and found a plug-in that backs up your WordPress database for you automatically every day or week or month depending on your preferences and emails the file to you.

It’s very simple & easy to set up. I did it in less than 5 minutes and I have no doubt the day will come when investing those 5 minutes to automate daily backups will save me hours of re-work and frustration.

You can visit my blog for the instructions or find the post using your favorite search engine. The title of the post is “Daily Backups for WordPress with GMail.”

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