Nov | 27 | 2009

Better Backup than Sorry

I wonder if thereâ€™s any statistics on the number of bloggers that keep a backup of all their blog posts.

I used to NOT keep backup copies. My reason for this is simple: I trusted WordPress. Now I am not saying that WordPress is not trustworthy but it is always better to be safe than sorry. Iâ€™m saying this from experience.

About a year ago while we were undergoing a redesign, for whatever reason, some technical booboo happened and several of our latest blog posts disappeared without a trace. This happened in several different blogs. Luckily I have a habit of saving my latest blog posts in a text file before erasing them all on a regular basis (once a week to every other week). Some of my posts werenâ€™t recovered since I already erased my backup but at least a handful was still there. Other bloggers, who didnâ€™t have any backup, had to rewrite some posts from memory, which means that the post is of course not 100% the same. Such a waste of time and effort!

I understand that the common practice is to just post and forget about it (except for answering comments on your posts) but doesnâ€™t it make so much more sense to save yourself the trouble of having to rewrite posts?

Now, if you have a personal blog it might not be as important to be able to recover your old blog posts but if you put [sentimental] value in it then make sure you have a backup as well. Again, the old adage still holds true â€“ BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY.

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