Comments on: How to Back Up WordPress

By: Riger

Riger — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 18:36:19 +0000

Updraft Plus does not support Backblaze according to their own documentation here: https://updraftplus.com/updraftplus-full-feature-list/
Further, BlogVault and BackupGuard also don’t support Backblaze (when I check the documentation on their websites).
XCloner, has a broken implementation (or possibly unreliable one based upon the WordPress environment, although I tried it in 4 different ones) , so not usable for Backblaze.
This leaves me thinking Backblaze is not a viable option, and instead I should be going to one of the main solutions, like Amazon, Dropbox, etc.
Finally, given WordPress has a very large market share of websites, was surprised Backblaze had not launched a plugin (that also would have sold their service). There’s seemingly little to no support under WordPress.
I’m guessing, the issue once we go with better supported solutions, this leaves no real need to revisit Backblaze. I think it’s okay for desktops, but (in my opinion), no good for the large WordPress sphere.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:07:00 +0000

Website security is extremely important, and that’s why always look for a host that offers backups and which can give you a high level of security for your sensitive information. You should always upgrade your WP plugins, files and so on to the latest version released and it’s good to use SSL certificates and CageFS as well. With my current ssd wordpress hosting I use R1Soft backup for daily backups.

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Remember to Backup Your WordPress Site – Composed Bits — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 22:26:56 +0000

[…] folks at Backblaze have written a nice overview of the various options for automatically backing up your self-hosted WordPress site. It’s worth a read. I’ll be using this to finally help choose my automated backup […]

By: Roderick Bauer

Roderick Bauer — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:41:00 +0000

In reply to Lezlee Alexander. Hi Lezlee. I don't believe that Weebly supports backing up to any cloud services. If you ask them, they might do it, however.

By: Roderick Bauer

Roderick Bauer — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:39:00 +0000

In reply to Christian Taylor. Ask them to support B2. If they get requests, they could support it.

By: joncomputing

joncomputing — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 04:21:00 +0000

I’ve been using B2 for incremental-forever backups since Duplicity first supported it. My latest iteration has been to install Ubuntu on a 1TB VPS from Time4VPS for a few bucks a month, and run it as a Backup/Archive Server. Every night, it triggers (via http to PHP code) mysqldump of WordPress (and phpBB) databases on Shared Hosting accounts, and then uses lftp on the Server to upload those mysqldump’s and WordPress files (via lftp mirror command). Then using Duplicity to do incremental-forever backups of everything to B2, with a different Bucket for each database, and a Bucket for each Shared Hosting account’s files, even if that includes several WordPress sites.

Sound complicated, but it beats paying for the amount of Backup coverage I want from the Shared Hosting vendors that I use.

By: Lezlee Alexander

Lezlee Alexander — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 19:20:00 +0000

Any chance this will be an option with weebly websites? :-)

By: Christian Taylor

Christian Taylor — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:06:00 +0000

The moment JetBackupManager (https://www.jetapps.com/jetbackup) supports B2, I’ll use it!

By: Roderick Bauer

Roderick Bauer — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Those interested in offloading media from WordPress to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage might want to follow the progress of this plugin that’s in development and listed on Github: “Backblaze B2 Media Offloader Plugin for WordPress.” https://github.com/dmhendricks/backblaze-media-offloader