A walk through the latest version of Backup Buddy (v 7.1.5) for WordPress, including hosting choice, making your first backup, scheduling recurring backups, wrangling the backup files, and potential uses for the backups

1. D'nelle Dowis
Berry Interesting Productions, Inc.
WordPress customization & development
Backup Buddy 101
Your Backup Plan Needs A Wingman

2. Hello there!
I feel the need… the need for speed
D'nelle T Dowis
Backup Buddy user since 2011
iThemes user since 2010
WordPress website customization since 2009
Opened Berry Interesting Productions in 2006
Dangerous and foolish since 1982

3. Your Hosting Choice
you absolutely get what you pay for
● Managed WordPress hosting:
concierge service of all
technical aspects - security,
speed, WordPress updates,
daily backups, website uptime,
and scalability - managed by
the host.
● Shared web hosting: multiple
accounts share a large server.
Technical aspects are managed
by account holder
● $7-30/month

4. Shared hosting & you
Is your ego writing checks your body can’t cash?
● WordPress powers 74
million+ websites - 18.9% of
all websites1
● That’s juicy, abundant, low-
hanging fruit for hackers
● You cannot 100% avoid
getting hacked
● You CAN be prepared
#wcn13ohmy
1 https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage

5. Backup Buddy: The Perfect Wingman
Don’t lose that lovin’ feelin’
● $6.67/month - $80 annual license from iThemes
● Easy to set up
● Independent of any host-provided tools
● Sends backups to off-site storage
● Useful for migrating your site to a new host
Action items:
- immediately come up with a budget so you can make smart decisions
- immediately make a backup (even if you start out with a manual one)
- ASAP: create a schedule for backups & maintenance and STICK TO IT
#wcn13ohmy

6. Backup Buddy: General Settings
Action items:
- create a password for import buddy and repair buddy
- indicate error notification recipient
- set archive limits
- configure any table/directory exclusions

7. Backup Buddy: Manual Backup
Action items:
- Be patient
- download ASAP
- mind your archives

8. Backup Buddy: Scheduled Backups
Action items:
- Stay organized
- create redundancy
- choose your schedule wisely
- store things off-site

9. Backup Buddy: Remote Destinations
Action items:
- locate your passwords
- be mindful of size limitations

10. Backup Buddy: Migration/Cloning
Action items:
- Keep your import buddy password in a safe place
- Be prepared to get slightly out of your comfort zone
- Don’t panic
- Have your passwords handy and keep a log of your actions
- Create a new database & new database user
- Upload importbuddy.php & .zip backup file
- Run importbuddy
- Check your work before you clean up

11. Backup Buddy: Other Uses For Your Backup
You were in a 4G inverted dive with a MiG 28? ...At what range?
● Major but anticipated
updates
● Changing
themes/designs
● Keeping a base
configuration handy for
future builds

12. Backup Buddy: Stash Live
I see some real genius in your flying
● eliminates the primary obstacle encountered when backing up
sites on slow, resource-limited shared hosting
● makes a real-time backup of your site
● Download locally, or send the files to Stash

13. iThemes Sync & Backup Buddy
No points for second place
● Connects to multiple
sites at once
● Eliminates the need to
log in to multiple
dashboards just for
maintenance/backup
● Uptime, Reports,
licensing

14. Resources
Time to buzz the tower
● Berry-Interesting.com
● iThemes.com
● WP Engine
● Site Ground
● A2 hosting
● Backup Buddy
● “Jumpstart Your Development”

15. D'nelle Dowis
chief distiller of awesomesauce
Berry Interesting Productions, Inc.
WordPress customization & development
@d_nelle • facebook.com/berry.interesting • 615-825-5608
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