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Sometimes bloggers end up loosing their blog after months of hard work due to database errors or Server Crash. The only remedy to this problem is to backup your blog daily.
But Creating a Backup of your Blog’s database manually daily can be a very time consuming & Irritating task.
Don’t worry here comes Dave to the rescue. Dave has posted a simple step by step instruction to create Daily Backup of your Wordpress Blog Using:
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wrote, on June 8th, 2006
I use manual backup in my cPanel. But when I in Uni, I use wp-DB Backup because the server block my access to cPanel.
wrote, on June 8th, 2006
Yeah, Even I used to use Cpanel for Backup, but it was a tedious task to do.
wrote, on February 10th, 2007
I don’t see anything interesting in that post.Its normal that you can provide an email id there.I can use any email id there why just gmail? It can be done through yahoo……I thought some new feature from gmail team
wrote, on February 11th, 2007
Ashish: Actually, when I wrote this post… Gmail was the only provider who offered a massive 1GB mailbox…
wrote, on February 11th, 2007
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wrote, on September 1st, 2007
Nice trick… Will have to give it a shot as i have couple of wordpress sites
wrote, on September 1st, 2007
I am going to try this on my wordpress site … Thanks
wrote, on May 17th, 2008
Glad to find this interesting post. I didn’t know until today that you can do gmail backups for your blogs.