Backup up WordPress

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  davidderrick · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 2:01 pm

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  Hi.

  Historically, has WordPress ever lost someone’s blog or a large part of it?

  Is there any way of automatically backing up an existing blog going back several years other than by simply saving each post as a file?

  Thanks

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 2:45 pm

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  You can Export your blog and save the XML file on your PC – that will save the text of all your Pages and Posts. No way to export your media (image) files other than save them one by one to your PC.

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  davidderrick · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 2:49 pm

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  Thank you. Does that work on a Mac and does it include comments? How do I actually do it, if that’s not too hard to explain?

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 2:57 pm

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  Works on a Mac and you can bring the comments also. Takes longer to explain than to start the export.

  See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/

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  davidderrick · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 3:30 pm

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  Thanks.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 3:38 pm

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  You be welcome

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  tandava108 · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 4:05 pm

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  WordPress.com say that they have multi-site backups so that your data is very safe anyway. That said there was someone on these forums who claimed that their posts did just disappear once!

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 5:00 pm

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  I think if there are co Admins on a site, it is particularly wise to make regular exports.

  WordPress.com specifically states that anyone with an Admin role has full control over the site, right down to deleting it, and if they do it isn’t considered wrongdoing.

  The moral of the story? Be very, very cautious about who you give Admin rights to!