WP-DB-BACKUP WordPress Plugin Review

Peace of mind—this is what’s in store for you when you backup your WordPress database. This component covers the range of multimedia content which graces your website, and serves as one your traffic drivers. You cannot just equate loss of your database to merely an unfortunate event, but to loss of months or years of your effort (time and money). The good news is there are backup plugins to your rescue. In particular, you may read on the WP-DP-BACKUP WordPress Plugin Review here.

Who should backup

Everyone should backup his or her database, ideally. But it seems that this is a practice of a ‘niche audience’—those who live in paranoia of the effects which online freak and not-so-freak accidents may inflict on their site contents. But to emphasize the necessity for database backup, here are some personas:

1. You are a small or start-up enterprise owner with very little (if any at all) budget on maintaining online presence via WordPress even if this is undoubtedly a tool of the trade. Your budget is just so stretched already.


2. You are an enthusiast, hobbyist, or writer of any sort who invested years-worth of resources building and maintaining your WordPress site (plus connections, following).


3. You are migrating WordPress to another host.

But on top of any of these, you are using a self-hosted or WordPress.org-based site because the WP-DP-BACKUP WordPress Plugin is not enabled on WordPress.com-based sites.

 Why this particular WordPress Backup Plugin

This backup plugin has almost 2 million downloads. The current version is 2.2.3, with the last update conducted years ago already. For the WP-DP-BACKUP WordPress Plugin Review proper, here are the Pros and Cons:

Pros

1. It’s a free-of-charge plugin.


2. It’s relatively easy-to-use.


3. It has several backup storage options. This backup plugin allows you to download the backup on your hard drive or even send the backup database to your e-mail. Moreover, the e-mail backup option may be scheduled based on your preference—either daily or weekly.

 Cons

1. The backup plugin only covers databases, not files. This implies that this WordPress plugin cannot backup the site in its entirety.


2. There is a weak support online for this plugin. A few FAQs though may be found on the WordPress Plugin Directory.

How to Use the Backup Plugin

The plugin is relatively easy to use. The entire backup process only takes a few minutes. This WP-DP-BACKUP WordPress Plugin Review details the database backup process, though you may also use this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJz3x2QbwJA. This video also details how to use database backups when you need to migrate a WordPress site to another host.

1. Log in to your WordPress site.


2. Download and install ‘WP-DP-BACKUP-WordPress Plugin’.


3. Go to ‘Tools’, then ‘Backup’.


4. Choose the database tables you want to backup. Note: The plugin backups content under Post, Page, User Data, and Settings. Technically, the backup created is on the database tables of WordPress.


5. Select your backup options and schedule, then click “Backup Now”.

With this database backup plugin, you may cross a few items on your to-worry-about list. Your WordPress content (the database, at least) now can be off someplace else aside from your site.

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