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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

WordPress Backup to Dropbox

Last week we talked about backing up your WordPress files to Dreamhost's cloud service. An alternative (or additional tool in your backup arsenal) is Dropbox. using this Wordpress plugin you can backup your WordPress blog, its media and database to Dropbox.

Once installed, the authorization process is easy:

  1. When you first access the plugin's options page, it will ask you to authorize the plugin with Dropbox.
  2. A new window will open and Dropbox will ask you to authenticate and grant the plugin access.
  3. Finally, click continue to setup your backup