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Automatic WordPress Backup

I just downloaded and installed the very cool Automatic WordPress Backup plugin. It automatically backups your WordPress blog to the Amazon S3 service. Since I already have an S3 account (which is awesome too by the way), this was an ideal solution for me.

Downloaded, install and setup took no more that 5 minutes tops. Not only was this incredibly easy to setup and manage, but it’s great to have backups not on the same server as my host or kept locally either. The only potential drawback would be that your host must be a Linux server, but this of course is not a problem for me.

If you have WordPress blog and an Amazon S3 account then this is most highly recommended.

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Jungle Disk

Just downloaded Jungle Disk to help take care of my data storage.  It uses the Amazon S3 web service to backup and store files.  I already had an S3 account so it only took me a minute or so to setup the program to automate backups of my data.  

Currently I’ve been backing up my data to an external hard drive, but having my backup in the same room as my computer isn’t exactly the greatest model for protecting data.  And the S3 cloud computing model is great for me.  You only pay based on how much space you’re using and how much data you’re moving a month.  So it winds up being very affordable for me.

My initial backup on one of my computers should take about 3 days, but after that incremental backups shouldn’t take too long at all.  This seems very very easy thus far, and I think it’s a great solution to online storage.Â