Comments on: Birth Control for Your Blog (or How to Backup WordPress)

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:36:13 +0000

Stephen, yeah I have the latest version running & haven’t had any issues with it. I’m guessing the plugin dev just hasn’t verified that it works for the latest version cause it’s seamless for me.

By: Stephen Jeske

Stephen Jeske — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:23:57 +0000

Ben, are you using the WordPress Backup Plugin with the latest version of WordPress? I was going to download the plugin but got notified that it hasn’t been tested with the latest versionof WP (which I’m running). Wondering if this is a big deal or not?

By: Emily Geizer

Emily Geizer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:51:19 +0000

Ben,

Thanks for these thoughts.

I only have a few other plug-ins (Akismet, Subscribe to Comments, WP Stats, Add to Any). Here is what the error said: “Destination folder already exists. /home/childper/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-db-backup/
Plugin Install Failed.”

I have an email into Austin, so we’ll see what he says.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:40:28 +0000

Emily, I’m glad you found the post useful.

Without seeing the errors it’s difficult to tell what’s going on but I’ve only had problems with WP Database Backup due to a slow connection.

The stuff you’re describing sound like it’s not working with another one of your plugins well or something along those lines. You might want to deactivate any other type of backup plugins while you try to run it and see if that doesn’t help.

By: Emily Geizer

Emily Geizer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:59:27 +0000

Thank you for this very clear and thorough explanation! It’s been the easiest one for me to understand so far, and I have been reading reams on this subject over the past day.

The one problem that I am having is that my site is not activating the WP Database Backup. The first time I tried it said the header was broken and the 2nd time it told me there were system errors, or some such nonsense.

I’m heading over to that plug-ins support forums to try to resolve the issue, but currently a little frustrated that this “easy” process is so challenging!

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By: Jeff

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http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/

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