PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING
IMPORTANT CHANGES
To my (still relevant)
DON’T DELAY – BACKUP TODAY!
post in October 2014!
Because you never know what the day may bring
So Stay Safe – Not Sorry
AUTHORS
PROTECT YOUR WIP’s
BLOGGERS
PROTECT YOUR BLOGS
(For WordPress Users)
ADMIN
TOOLS
EXPORT
EXPORT (again)
FIRST TRY to
set it to ALL CONTENT then press
DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE
CHECK to ENSURE the downloaded file has a size value LESS THAN 15 MB
IF the file reads ZERO – then delete it and do the following
GO BACK to Admin – Tools – Export – Export
Select POSTS
Select START and FINISH dates (say from January to December of the first year)
DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE AGAIN
THEN
CHECK to ENSURE the downloaded file has a size value LESS THAN 15 MB
If it DOES.
Make a folder for the POSTS
labelled with the period the file covered and transfer the file into it.
THEN – go back and download the following period.
CHECK – ENSURE less than 15 MB
Make new folder for POSTS labelled for the period covered
Transfer the downloaded file into it.
REPEAT
until ALL your POSTS are downloaded and safely in labelled folders!
NOW
Go back and do the same for your
PAGES, MEDIA and FEEDBACK
Place them in separate folders,
duly labelled PAGES, MEDIA and FEEDBACK,
plus the periods covered
Once this is done, you no longer need to back-up your OLD posts
for the previous years
ONLY the current period you are in
As an example
my POSTS folders cover:
April to December 2013 file is 9.2 MB
Jan to May 2014 file is 12.2 MB
Jun to Aug 2014 is 11.2 MB
Sep to Nov 2014 is 14.5 MB
Dec 2014 to Jan 2014 is 14.8 MB
Feb 2015 to ? is currently 3.6 MB***
*** is the only POSTS file I need to back-up daily until it is almost at 15MB
After which I’ll make a new folder for the next period
My PAGES (2.9 MB) and FEEDBACK (39 KB) folders
currently cover April 2013 to Feb 2015
So until their size values almost reach 15 MB,
I’ll continue to back up FEEDBACK
for the whole period each day
BUT ONLY when I change or add to PAGES
will I need to do any further back-ups
If you require any further clarifications,
please let me know and I’ll TRY to answer or advise you
Please DO NOT hesitate to ask
It’s better being SAFE than SORRY
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Reblogged this on Everything Indie and commented:
Thank you to Chris The Story Reading Ape for sharing this invaluable information! Writers and bloggers, back up your work!
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Thanks for re-blogging Connie 😀
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Reblogged this on Barrow Blogs and commented:
useful
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Glad it’s useful to you Judy – Thanks for re-blogging 😀
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So I really do not understand this and I have been building computers – and backing them up – for 20 years. You end up with an xml file – which, as far as I can tell, does not contain images, the actual posts., what have you.
Please explain how this is a back up. 🙂
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Don’t ask me Cafloyd, ask WordPress – but I can confirm that the images are somehow there when the xml is imported into another WP blog (I did it with my test blog) 😀
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Yes, you can use the xml file to transfer your WordPress posts, etc., to another WP blog – whether on a WordPress server or another Web-hosting company that offers WordPress supoprt – such as 1and1. However, the posts, images, etc., are still stored on WordPress servers/computers, on the 1and1 servers, etc.
The xml file, however, is not a back up. Nor is it “imported” into another WP blog.
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Then it must be a transfer code Cafloyd – either way, it works 😀
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Just to be clear – and not to mislead other WP users – this is the text from the very top of the XML file I just created (again) from my WP site. Please note the last sentence.
”
<!–
This is a WordPress eXtended RSS file generated by WordPress as an export of your site.
It contains information about your site's posts, pages, comments, categories, and other content.
You may use this file to transfer that content from one site to another.
This file is not intended to serve as a complete backup of your site."
"This file is not intended to serve as a complete backup of your site."
This is an important bit of information.
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I saw that too Cafloyd 😀
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Yes – so stop saying it’s a back up, ok? Jeez.
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That’s the term used by WordPress.
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I’ve done as instructed. I get a 5.4MB XML file. The content looks terrifying. I think all the titles and the photos are (apparently jumbled) in the front section. There is some recognisable text every now and again and the end of the document is my last post plus comments, but all askimet’s moves are included. Have I done anything wrong or is this the clearest back-up I can achieve?
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Empty the spam folder and try again Hilary, to see if that makes a difference – the main thing is that you now have a back-up 🙂
Don’t forget to do a back-up at the end of each day when you’ve made changes or new posts and replace the existing file with the new one 😀
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There wasn’t much in the spam queue, and I couldn’t see any of it in the back-up, its just this kind of stuff: email_notification_notqueued 1424034696 akismet_result false akismet_history a:4:{s:4:”time”;d:1424034696.0493450164794921875;s:7:”message”;s:28:”Akismet cleared this… etc. But you are right, so long as I have a back up of some kind, it can actually be reinstated on a new WordPress site. Back-up every day??
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If you make changes or new posts daily, then you should back up daily Hilary 😀
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Thanks, Chris. Shared 🙂
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Thanks for the tips. Back up everything else but never really thought about WP.
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It’s easily overlooked Irene – people assume their blog is automatically backed up onto a WP cloud – but it’s NOT 😀
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Reading this I feel like someone just pulled me back from stepping out into the path of oncoming traffic! I had backed up nothing. Silly. Off to rectify immediately. What would I do without you?
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I can imagine your panic when you realised Tara – I’d been faithfully backing up ZERO for the past 15 months 😀
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Thanks for the information 😊
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Welcome Michelle 😀
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Reblogged this on "OUR WORLD".
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Thanks for re-blogging Nancy 😀
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My pleasure! Thank you for these tips. I really need to buckle down and learn how to straighten out my mess!! 😉
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Good Luck with the mess straightening Nancy 😀
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Reblogged this on theowlladyblog.
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Thanks Viv 😀
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