How to completely save my wordpress data?

The export tools build in WordPress can export only content: posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation menus and custom posts. It dosen’t export settings, preferences or users. So, in your case, as you want your new installation be exactly the same, it is better to export your entire database using a different tool, for … Read more

How to backup 20+TB of data?

You need to take a step back and stop thinking “I’ve got 20TB on my NAS I need to back up!” and develop a storage strategy that takes into account the nature of your data: Where is it coming from and how much new data are you getting? (you’ve got this in your question) How … Read more

How to fully backup a WordPress site?

To backup WordPress website (on your own host), you have 2 options. Option 1 Use a plugin such as BackUpWordPress. Option 2 Backup database and your contents individually. To backup your database, you will have to sign in to your cPanel/DirectAdmin area and head over to database section of the panel. There, you can select … Read more

GIT as a backup tool

You’re not a silly person. Using git as a backup mechanism can be attractive, and despite what other folks have said, git works just fine with binary files. Read this page from the Git Book for more information on this topic. Basically, since git is not using a delta storage mechanism, it doesn’t really care … Read more

Why is RAID not a backup?

RAID guards against one kind of hardware failure. There’s lots of failure modes that it doesn’t guard against. File corruption Human error (deleting files by mistake) Catastrophic damage (someone dumps water onto the server) Viruses and other malware Software bugs that wipe out data Hardware problems that wipe out data or cause hardware damage (controller … Read more