Most of us have been in the horrible situation of having a complete website meltdown (either caused by machine fail or human fail). It’s an absolutely awful feeling, which is why backing up websites is so important. But how to do that?
Automattic’s answer is VaultPress. It’s a solid and continuous back up service that backs-up a site’s files as well as it’s database. More importantly, it also provides for easy back up restoration – the crucial Step 2 of the back up process.
From VaultPress’ site:
VaultPress provides realtime, continuous backup and synchronization of every post, comment, media file, revision and dashboard setting across at least two separate cloud services in addition to the Automattic grid, ensuring no loss of content.
How? Using WordPress hooks to receive alerts when information changes on your site, VaultPress immediately syncs all of your changes with our servers. The net result? 11 copies of your data, backed up continuously and in realtime.
