Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings

WordPress, web development, and world domination.

Monthly Archives: September 2011

How I backup my database

I run several WordPress sites on my servers, including this blog, which has content going back over 10 years. While I’m not too worried about backing up all the files (I can always install a fresh copy of WordPress on a new server and be up and running quickly, sans old images and such), my content is quite precious to me. For a long time, I ran a nightly perl script which dumped my databases … Continue reading