Send UpdraftPlus backups to different S3 folders
Send UpdraftPlus backups to different S3 folders, so that separate lifecycle policies can be applied to them.
Send UpdraftPlus backups to different S3 folders, so that separate lifecycle policies can be applied to them.
I've been using the fabulous WP Migrate DB Pro since June; it makes it really easy to duplicate the data from one WordPress website onto another, something that developers need to do frequently, and it handles the problems of moving serialised data from one server to another without breaking it. When pulling data from a production server to a development or test environment, it also (by design) replaces all your settings, which might mean that test emails go to your clients -- can anyone say, "Dear Rich Bastard?" Thankfully, it also offers a couple of save-your-backside solutions.
In a previous post, I outlined how I got my MySQL database backup emailed to me regularly from my shared hosting server. About a week later, I ditched that method because I wanted to change it to send my backups to GMail, but the email headers made those emails look like spam so GMail was ditching them. Instead, I rewrote the backup script in Python.
If you have a website hosted by a hosting service, and it uses a MySQL database, and you rely on regular backups of that database, maybe you need to handle that yourself. If the database is small enough, it might just pay to have cron email you a backup of the database periodically, which is easy enough to set up on a hosting account with cPanel as the control panel.