Comments on: Always Backup Your Work http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/always-backup-your-work/ Personal blog of Eric Shanfelt, Online Business Strategist Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nik http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/always-backup-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Nik Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:02:37 +0000 http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/?p=12#comment-44 Eric, years ago, I added this command to my web host's crontab to run daily around 1:15 AM. (I try to avoid running stuff at midnight, since my host runs backups at that time): mysqldump -u [username] -p [password] [databasename] | gzip > db.sql.gz Just creates a full database dump as a gzipped file every day. Saved me a zillion times. I eventually made this a bit fancier and did a backup each day of the week (numbered 0-7 so as to recycle the backup) and a monthly backup as well (for the times when things were broken more than a week). That's plenty of protection, provided you have the disk space to store it. Eric, years ago, I added this command to my web host’s crontab to run daily around 1:15 AM. (I try to avoid running stuff at midnight, since my host runs backups at that time):

mysqldump -u [username] -p [password] [databasename] | gzip > db.sql.gz

Just creates a full database dump as a gzipped file every day. Saved me a zillion times.

I eventually made this a bit fancier and did a backup each day of the week (numbered 0-7 so as to recycle the backup) and a monthly backup as well (for the times when things were broken more than a week). That’s plenty of protection, provided you have the disk space to store it.

]]> By: Eric http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/always-backup-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Eric Mon, 15 May 2006 15:05:57 +0000 http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/?p=12#comment-14 Hi Tony. Yes, I believe that was the case. WP dropped the entire database instead of just the tables. VB did warn me, but I thought they'd only drop their tables, not the entire database. Just a minor clarification in their warning would have been enough to help me. Nonetheless, I should have known better to back up my site before installing a major piece of software. That was just stupid on my part and I've certainly learned that lesson ... again. Hi Tony. Yes, I believe that was the case. WP dropped the entire database instead of just the tables. VB did warn me, but I thought they’d only drop their tables, not the entire database. Just a minor clarification in their warning would have been enough to help me. Nonetheless, I should have known better to back up my site before installing a major piece of software. That was just stupid on my part and I’ve certainly learned that lesson … again.

]]> By: Tony Angelo http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/always-backup-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Tony Angelo Fri, 12 May 2006 15:57:42 +0000 http://www.emediastrategist.com/blog/?p=12#comment-12 Eric, If your WordPress database was shared by your vBulletin database, but seperated with only prefixes, such as wp_ and vb_, the vBulletin install app may not have been able to differenciate between the two. Was that the case? If so, and if that is <em>still</em> the case, you may want to consider seperating your MySQL databses for each application if your host allows. If that wasn't the case, you should really tell Jelsoft... even though they <em>did</em> warn you. Eric, If your WordPress database was shared by your vBulletin database, but seperated with only prefixes, such as wp_ and vb_, the vBulletin install app may not have been able to differenciate between the two. Was that the case? If so, and if that is still the case, you may want to consider seperating your MySQL databses for each application if your host allows. If that wasn’t the case, you should really tell Jelsoft… even though they did warn you.

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