How often do you backup your blog’s database? Files? If you blog everyday you should be backing up your database at least once a day, or more often if you blog several times during the day. And generally, whenever you edit theme files or other files on your site, you should back them up immediately.
There’s really no excuse for NOT backing up your site’s database; with plugins it’s easy to automatically backup your database however often you choose, and it’s also easy to restore your database. For years, I used the WP-DB-Backup plugin on all of my sites, and it always worked fine, except for on grechenscodes.com (I wrote about my experience in this article). Periodically I would go to grechenscodes.com and find all the content GONE. DISAPPEARED. All I needed to do to fix it was use the “Repair database” function in the plugin, but that never “solved” the problem. Sometimes the content was gone for hours and it caused disruptions in my RSS email newsletter going out. It was a mess. And it turns out, it was the plugin itself. Maybe it was conflicting with other plugins I was using; honestly, I didn’t take the time to disable and go through all the plugins to see which other one was causing the problem, I just signed up for Vaultpress.
When I started using Vaultpress for grechenscodes.com it was invite-only and they did not have an “easy” way to restore your database. Now, anyone can sign-up for $15/month and they’ve added a quick & easy database restore function, which I have had to use once, again on grechenscodes.com, and it went smoothly; so painless & easy. Now they also backup files and can restore them with “one-click” (although I still use FTP to backup all my theme files to my hard drive. just in case). I will never go back to another database backup plugin (Vaultpress IS a plugin) again and although right now I only use it on two sites, I may start using it on more.
For $30/month (I’m using it on two sites), I am more than happy with what I get from Vaultpress and highly recommend it to anyone who has had problems with other database backup plugins, or if you want something that also backs up theme files, etc. And no, they’re not paying me to say that 
What do you use to backup your wordpress database? files? Do you have any other tips for bloggers?
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