Jun 19, 2017 | Projects |
We recently enjoyed Bill Nye’s (‘The Science Guy’) new series on Netflix where Bill Nye Saves The World! In each episode he delves into a scientific subject and brings it alive with insightful explanations, demonstrations and discussions with an expert panel. In some episodes he likes to Take A Minute to make a passionate point about a topic. Subjects include climate change, alternative medicine, artificial intelligence, vaccinations and many more in the 13 part series. So it inspired us and we decided we should Take a Minute and discuss disaster recovery strategies for backing up and updating WordPress based websites. Lots to Think About In a nut shell you can adopt one of several backup strategies: Do nothing. Rely on your hosting ISP to have backups. Make a backup copy of everything before doing any updates. Routinely backup the site on a scheduled basis. If we decide backups are a good idea we then have to decide where to backup to. Options include: On the same ISP server account. To a cloud account like Dropbox. To a local machine, like your own desktop or office server. To an email account as an attachment. We also have to decide what to backup: WordPress core (not really necessary because WordPress keeps archive copies of all releases) Themes Plugins Customizations Database (WordPress always uses a database) And then we have to decide how to backup: Via FTP Using a plugin (there are several) Relying on an ISP process Some combination But there are other factors that need to be taken into account: How often do you update the site content? How often...
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