If you use WordPress probably I do not think I need to tell what is a database. But everyone should know that every database must be saved periodically. I’ll speak about a plugin very useful and that any blogger should have installed, the WordPress Backup Database, which helps you to make and schedule your backups automatically. The installation is very simple, as I explained before, you should download it from the following address, the blog of the author of WordPress Database Backup, Austin Matzka. The steps are as follows:

1. Download and unzip it on your computer.
2. Upload to your server, and place it in the directory /wp-content/plugins/
3. Active it in the plugins panel.
4. Now you have a new option in the Manage panel called backup, enter in this option.
5. You’ll see all tables that compose your WordPress database and in case you have created extra tables also you’ll see them. All these tables will be included in the backup file.
6. Select how you want to save the file: stored on the server, downloaded to your computer, e-mailed to you.
7. Finally… press the button BackUp!

It leads you to a page in which you see the progress of the process. At the end you should have a new directory for backup files in /wp-content/. If there is something wrong and it can’t create it maybe you have to change the directories privileges on your server. Change privileges of /wp-content/ to 755 (CHMOD 755) and tray again. If it doesn’t result then try CHMOD to 777, this should work.

Now you have made your first backup. Set the process to repit automatically every day and send the file by email. This way if someday you have problems in your server you will have all your data perfectly saved.

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