About a year and a half ago we wrote about how to backup your WordPress blog. In that post, we covered a few different WordPress plugins to manage your database backups, and explained why that was so important.
For the record, the plugin I primarily recommended back then and still prefer today is the WP-DB Manager plugin. This plugin allows you to backup and restore databases, as well as delete database tables, giving users full control over their database backups.
Unfortunately, that plugin only creates a backup for your database. What about everything else? WordPress blogs have a theme (or multiple themes), many use several WordPress plugins, and most bloggers use images that you’ve created to help draw attention to your posts or to illustrate a point.
Blog Exchange Traffic decided to fix this with their WordPress plugin release, the WordPress Backup plugin. This plugin backups up your themes, plugins, images, and gives you the option to download these backups or have them emailed to you (this only works if it is a smaller sized backup). WordPress Backup also works along side the WP-DB Manager plugin mentioned above, so it is recommended that you use both.
What do you use to manage your WordPress backups?
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is the founder and primary author of WordPress Hacks. You can learn more about him at KyleEslick.com or you can follow his personal tweets here.
Thanks for releasing this version. 
As your site has a lot of widgets, so I think it will significantly reduce the server usage. 
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I am glad you like it… I certinaly use it on all my sites…
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nice to here that. Before this i have to download my data base. You solve my problem with this wp plugin. Thanks @kyle.
Hi and thanks for this. I am surely going to upload the plugin and install it on my website.
The only problem is maybe the file size of the zipped files might get huge and I hope the plugin developer will find a solution.
Thanks. That’s great. This plugin is exactly what I want.
What a great alternative to the wp-db manger plugin! I’ve been backing up my wp-contents folder manually once a month in addition to getting weekly db backups emailed to me using the other plugin, but this new plugin seems like it will help alleviate the need for additional work. Thanks!
@ Epiphany – Yes, this plugin should save you some work, however, note that it does not replace the WP-DB Manager plugin (as I wrote in my review above). It was built to compliment the WP-DB Manager plugin!
Thanks so much for pointing that out, Kyle. (Not sure how I missed that.)
Hi and thanks for this. I am surely going to upload the plugin and install it on my website.
The only problem is maybe the file size of the zipped files might get huge and I hope the plugin developer will find a solution.
Backing up your word press blog is always a hassle and this plugin make it a lot easier. Thanks for sharing.
I think FTP is still THE most Safe ans Sane Way to Back up everything …apart from your database but the plugin doea a Good job In Some routine Weekly backups if your Blog is a small one ….Good and useful article
Great job this plugin
Thank you