Backing Up Your WordPress Site
Wrriten by Equal Design | Blog | 17 January 2010
Backups are essential for anything to do with computers and having a WordPress website is no different at all. You learn the hard way with backups, and I learnt the hard way about 4 years ago, when due to the lack of having a backup I lost my entire recipe collection. So here is a quick video tutorial on how to backup your WordPress website.
There are two main things that should be backed up when backing up a WordPress powered website. The first and perhaps most important is the database. This stores all your sites posts, pages, categories, tag, custom fields and in fact almost everything. The second is the sites Theme folders and any plugins that you site is using.
However what I tend to do when backing up a site is backup the entire files on the server (the public_html folder in CPanel) and then backup the database. I would recommend that you carry out this at regular intervals. If you have a heavy use site where you are writing posts and pages all the time, everyday then I would back up your site weekly, if not once a month should be fine.