B2B Marketing Blog - TopRank®

B2B Marketing views, news and interviews.

Contact Us

MENUMENU
  • Services
    • Influencer Marketing
      • B2B Influencer Marketing Pilot
    • Content Marketing
      • Virtual Events
    • Search Marketing
  • Marketing Resources
    • Resources
    • News
    • Newsletter
  • Industries
    • B2B Technology
    • IT Service Management
    • Project Management Software
    • Social Networks
    • Supply Chain
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Careers
  • Contact

The 13th – Blog Backup Day

Lee Odden
Lee Odden
Blogging Strategy

Blog Backup DayI’m declaring the 13th of each month as the unofficial blog backup day. Meaning that you should login to your blog software and download a backup of all posts. Also, if you have access to the template files, back those up too.

Avoiding issues are much easier than trying to fix them once they happen. I’ve never seen a blog just delete itself, but I have heard of people’s hosting accounts suddenly having a hardware failure and are non-recoverable. If you don’t have a backup of your files, who does?

Yes, a good host will make backups, but that’s placing your trust fully in a third party. What if their backups are in the same office as your website and they have a fire? All is lost. If you do have a good host, then a secondary set of backups never hurt and you’ll have them at your fingertips at all times.

Ok, so this is a perfect gloom post for Friday the 13th, but you must realize that technology isn’t perfect. Your blog could go down and if you have no backup, then you’ll have to start from zero. All your hard work down the drain.

What are you waiting for? Backup your Blog!!!!

So how do you backup a blog?

[tags]friday the 13th, backup, blog, unofficial, technology[/tags]

About Lee Odden

@LeeOdden is the CEO of TopRank Marketing and editor of TopRank's B2B Marketing Blog. Cited for his expertise by The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, he's the author of the book Optimize and presents internationally on B2B marketing topics including content, search, social media and influencer marketing. When not at conferences, consulting, or working with his talented team, he's likely running, traveling or cooking up something new.

Comments

  1. Blog4Life says

    April 18, 2007 at 10:33 am

    Hey, it would be much easier if you just used the new web 2.0 app called BlogBackupOnline. It’s fairly new but it works very well. Its free to use and it automatically creates daily backups of as many blogs as you want and stores it on their servers. Check it out the site is http://www.blogbackuponline.com.

  2. Jonas says

    February 24, 2008 at 5:15 am

    Hey, there is a new blogbackup service at http://blogbackupr.com

  3. Jack says

    December 4, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    yeah, thats a good idea, especially if you can do such a thing for free.
    -jack

  4. Acuity says

    November 12, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    WP-backup is a great WP plugin that allows you to schedule backups… do mine every week aswell!

  5. Thomas McMahon says

    November 16, 2009 at 7:02 am

    I agree, WP-backup is fantastic.

Trackbacks

  1. The 13th Means Backup Your Blog at LifeDev says:
    October 13, 2006 at 4:04 pm

    […] Blog Backup Day These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]

  2. Server burp… at blog.bradgrier.net says:
    February 16, 2007 at 11:31 pm

    […] And I think I’ll also begin to follow the path of Blog Backup Day — the 13th of every month. […]

  3. Backup Your Blog Today » Blog on a Stick says:
    June 13, 2007 at 6:27 am

    […] you didn’t know, today is Blog Backup Day. The 13th of every month is the one day that you should take a few minutes and backup your blog […]

  4. LOLEG.com says:
    June 13, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    The 13th – Blog Backup Day…

    Great idea! But I’m going to backup tomorrow, was going to anyway…
    The 13th of each month as the unofficial blog backup day. Meaning that you should login to your blog software and download a backup of all posts. Also, if you have access …

  5. Willy Andres » Blog Archive » Blog BackUp Day says:
    June 13, 2007 at 8:05 pm

    […] Mira los detalles de esta campaña: Español – English […]

  6.   Make Every 13th of the Month Your Blog Backup Day by Blog Tutorials says:
    June 17, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    […] Here’s a great campaign I bumped into: every 13th of the month is unofficially Blog Backup Day. […]

  7. That fragile thing we call the Internet at Aral Balkan says:
    March 29, 2008 at 5:40 am

    […] apparently already a monthly 13th Blog Backup Day. (And, ideally, you’d be doing automated backups every day or week but we don’t live in an ideal […]

  8. Use Web 2.0 tools to save time and be more productive | Brad Grier Consulting | Social Media and Communications | bgrier says:
    May 29, 2008 at 5:46 am

    […] Use Twitter to have Sandy remind you to backup your blog on the 13th of each month […]

LET’S GET SOCIAL

RSS Feed Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

Learn about:

SEE TOPRANK MARKETING SPEAK

How to Accelerate B2B Marketing Results by Working With Influencers Get Early Access to TopRank Marketing's 2022 State of B2B Influencer Marketing Research Report

SUBSCRIBE        

TOPRANK BLOGGING TEAM

TopRank Marketing Blogging Team

 

Optimize

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

SEO Blogs

MARKETING BLOG RECOGNITION

CMI

Copyright © 2022 · TopRank Marketing

Return to top of page

Posting....

We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. This includes personalizing content and advertising. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies and revised Privacy Policy.