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WordPress Database Backup Plugin

WordPress is database driven blogging tool. All the information you see on this page is actually brought from WordPress database. WordPress database contain about 10 tables to hold different information regarding your blog site. Keeping backup of the database becomes very crucial to avoid data loss in case of any failure. WordPress lovers have developed this beautiful plugin which do the database backup job for your automatically. Download this plugin from WordPress official site, Download Database Plugin Now, and upload it to your WordPress Plugin directory.

 Don't forget to unzip the downloaded file if it is zipped, before uploading. Login as administrator and activate the plugin. There are a variety of options to choose from.

Configuring Database Backup Plugin

Configuration of this plugin is very easy, core table of WordPress is automatically selected for backup, additional tables which are created by extra plugin you have installed can be selected as shown in figure. This blog has extra plugin installed like wp_rating, wp_statpress, etc

Selecting Backup Options

There are two backup options as shown the figure below. Either you can save the backup files on server itself in some folder or you can email you backup file to any email you configure here.

Backup Schedules

Here you can configure, how often you want to make backup of your WordPress database and which email you want to send your backup information.