Monday, April 15, 2013

How to backup Wordpress Website and Data

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You might have spent lot of your time in developing your website and it's quality content. It's always better to backup your website so that you don't have to worry if something goes wrong to your website and it's data. Well, this can be done in different ways like using mover[Link] to backup Wordpress website to your Dropbox or any other online storage  site.  One such way to backup Wordpress website is using Wordpress plugin - 'Backup to Dropbox'.


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By using this plugin you can backup wordpress website, media, database and all other site content. Once this plugin is installed all that you need to do is choose a day, time and how frequently you want the data backup to happen. Your backup can be stored in Dropbox or server itself, you have the option to select. Also, there is an option to select what directories and files to select for backup. All your Dropbox confidential info like login details are not stored or saved by this plugin and hence is safe to use.


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Follow the following steps to install this plugin and perform backup.




  • Login to your Wordpress account and install the plugin.

  • Go to plugin option page and authorize the plugin with Dropbox.

  • Select from the backup options like data, time and frequency.


This is one of the easiest way to backup wordpress data and recover it. In the worst case of something goes wrong with the plugin and you are unable to uninstall plugin then you can always go to your hosting server and manually disable WordPress plugin.

Download link: Backup to Dropbox

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