Nov | 27 | 2009

Better Backup than Sorry

I wonder if there’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. I’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 weren’t recovered since I already erased my backup but at least a handful was still there. Other bloggers, who didn’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 doesn’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 – BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY.

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