Secure Your WordPress Site Without Bursting into Tears: Back Up Your Database

Here’s installment #2 of the WPChick Video Guide on securing your WordPress site.

This video will show you how to install a plugin that will automatically email you a backup of your database regularly. You can tell it to send you a backup once or twice a day, once a week or hourly. Very handy.

So click the play button below!

There are several other backup plugins including those that will back up to the cloud (that is, virtual storage space somewhere on the internets). I chose WP-DB-Backup because it’s the easiest to set up, doesn’t require a lot of fiddling and just works.

Just in case you want to check out some other backup plugins for WordPress, here’s a quick list:
iDrive Plugin – backs up your database to your iDrive account.
BackupBuddy – backs up everything including your site files and database.
BlogVault – will back up your database and your site files.

And keep an eye out for Automattic’s upcoming WordPress Backup service, VaultPress.