Comments on: Backup WordPress = 2 Plugins + Gmail

By: Blake Imeson

Blake Imeson — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:15:51 +0000

@Rich good question - I have found that 25mb limit to be plenty for most sites. Especially when it is gz compressed. Most of mine aren't much more than a few megabytes. Those plugins will also save a copy of the db on the server where you can access it via FTP. I actually just came across another way of doing this with a Cron job and a script. You still have the email size limit though.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:22:06 +0000

Umm question. Wouldn't there be problems for sending file attachments to gmail over 25 mb?? I'd figure within a month of writing blogs with images, (or a couple of months) it would fill up the file size limit! Any advice to that?

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By: Nathan Peretic

Nathan Peretic — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:25:44 +0000

Blake,

I'm not aware of any way to filter messages in Gmail based on age (whether by date or by messages received since), but you could create a filter that moves these backups directly to the trash. They'll be auto-deleted after 30 days. It's not a huge window, but it would suffice for a basic backup strategy.

By: wpressd.com

wpressd.com — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:56:44 +0000

Backup WordPress = 2 Plugins + Gmail...

Great tip for keeping your blog continuously backed up by using 2 WordPress plugins and Gmail. Use Wp-DB-Backup and WordPress Backup sending backups regularly to a special Gmail account....