• Backup WordPress sites to Amazon S3

    Mar 01.10 | Technology   

    A new plugin allows automatic backup of a WordPress site to an Amazon S3 store.  This functionality seems most useful to me for a multi-user installation, where the amount of data AND the risk of loss is much greater.  At the moment there doesn’t seem to be support for MU, but with the coming merger of the single and MU WordPress versions that exclusion should be short-lived.

    Backing Up a WordPress Blog to the Cloud Using Amazon S3 – ReadWriteCloud

    The plugin makes it pretty simple to back up your blog. All you need to do is provide an Amazon S3 account key.

    Automatic WordPress Backup

    Captures your ENTIRE site (WordPress database, themes, plugins, uploaded files and settings files), which means minimal downtime if you need to restore.

    WordPress MU compatible?

    We haven’t tested it yet but the answer is probably “No” because of how MU stores files. Since Mu will be getting merged into regular WordPress in the near future, we probably won’t be spending time on adding compatibility for mu. Sorry.

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    In my day job I serve as Information Technology Director for the Yale School of Drama. Otherwise I garden, play guitar, build stuff out of wood, take photos, play around with technology and have been blogging since 2003.

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    Easy Wordpress Backup on Mar 04 10 at 2:33 am

    You can always use S3 Browser to restore or view your backed up data. It easy to use and free!

    S3 Browser Team added these pithy words on Mar 02 10 at 12:00 pm

    Works great! I tried to get it to work with MU with no success. Would be good to be able to hide the id and keys once they have been entered, as well as the bucket. I modified the code to at least not show on the page, but it is still visible for those who look at the source output to their browser.

    TomF added these pithy words on Apr 22 10 at 8:45 am

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