Frequently Asked Questions over at Wordpress.com has a brilliant piece on backups for bloggers.
Several years ago I had to reconstruct WealthEsteem.org after catastrophic hardware failure. Luckily Google had begun indexing it so I didn’t lose any posts. But rebuilding the comments proved too hard.
Matt and his team offer the brilliant advice of subscribing to the RSS feeds of your own site as a way of maintaining backups. Subscribe both the posts and the comments feed via either a web- or desktop-based aggregator. I already subscribe to my blogs to keep an eye on how it looks to my syndicated readers, now I have another reason.
Thanks for this brilliant but overlooked tip.
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I’ve created a service to backup any MySQL-based blog:
http://backupmyblog.com
It performs automatic remote backups every 24 hours. Its currently free during the beta period. Check it out if you get a chance.
- Doug