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Backup WordPress Blog To Dropbox Account

| April 26, 2011 | 3 Comments

WordPress is the best for blogging but if you have a self hosted WordPress blog, then you must need to take lots of precautions to protect your data, because self hosted sites hosted with different web hosting companies. Here the data security and everything is depends on you. In this case you need to have a continuous backup of your website. WordPress works on PHP with MySQL support, so your all data shall be stored in the form of database.

So you need to have the database, website themes and upload folder images and other media backup, but the only problem is with the manual FTP backup, but don’t worry we have a final solution for your WordPress blog backup, you can have all your WordPress blog data back up on online using Dropbox account, if you are not aware of Dropbox service, it is an online data sharing service, here you can get a free account with 2GB of free space.

In my opinion that space is more than enough for your backup needs, let’s start this…

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Online Backup WordPress Blog to Dropbox Account :

1) First register an account at dropbox.com ( It’s free ).

2) Now install WP Time Machine Plaugin.

3) This plugin allows you to back up all your WordPress data to Dropbox, Amazon S3 and through FTP. You can choose any of these three options. See this below screenshot…

wp time machine settings for dropbox account Backup Wordpress Blog To Dropbox Account

  • Dropbox: You can enter a single folder name (and if you are time stamping archives that folder name will be appended with your server’s current date).
  • S3: You can enter a single bucket name, which will always get appended with a unique string of characters to make sure that the bucket’s name doesn’t conflict with any other buckets on S3. And just like Dropbox the bucket name will also be appended with time stamps if desired.
  • FTP: You can enter (absolute or relative) paths.

4) Just select the Dropbox option just appears like in the above screenshot and give the account details in the below section.

5) Now just click on “Generate wp Time Machine Archive“, that’s it you will get all the backup in your dropbox account. See this below screenshot of my blog backup.

wordpress back in dropbox Backup Wordpress Blog To Dropbox AccountThis is how you can take online backup of WordPress blog using WP Time Machine plugin and Dropbox account, please let me know if you have any issues in the comments section below.

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Arafath Hashmi is a Blogger from 2007 and he wrote 700 and above articles for solvater.com, He is a Senior SEO Analyst.
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  • http://mybackupbox.com Eric Warnke

    I’ve used WP Time Machine before, it’s pretty good :) Unfortunately it only works for WordPress, so we created a service that lets you backup anything from an FTP server to Dropbox, including database files. So with our service you can automatically back up 10 WordPress sites at once instead of having to install this plug for each one. Check it out at http://mybackbox.com

  • http://www.electricmayhemsolutions.net Adrian Robertson

    Hello, I am currently using a WP to DropBox backup option but am interested in this one because of the time-stamped sub-directories option. I have a couple of questions:

    Can you set how many days to create the sub-directories for, or is there a default limit? Or does it just keep creating archival sub-directories “forever”?

    Also, can you tell this plugin to auto backup on a schedule? Daily at 3am, for example?

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