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iDrive Backup Plugin For WordPress

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

If you are using WordPress this plugin is a MUST!

Even though we backup your data daily to our 4TB Network Storage Device, it’s always a good thing to be making your own backups of your data incase of a corrupted backup or a disaster. We use iDrive on all of our internal machines and find the software to be easy to install and use.

IDrive Plug-in for WordPress is an easy to use backup utility, designed specifically to backup WordPress blog data into your IDrive online backup account. It provides scheduled as well as immediate backup of WordPress blog data including files and MySQL database dump.

Install and activate the IDrive Plug-in for WordPress. Through the Plug-in, create a new IDrive online backup account to start backing up your WordPress data.

Features

  • Immediate backup of WordPress blog data, both files as well as MySQL data dump, into your IDrive online backup account
  • Scheduled backups occur after 12 midnight every day
  • Immediate restore of backed up data from your IDrive online backup account
  • Smart backup – Only the first backup transfers entire WordPress content, subsequent backups are incremental where only the modified data is backed up
  • Automatic notification via email on backup / restore status
  • Secure transfer of data to IDrive server using SSL. Non SSL transfer option is also available for non SSL servers
  • Detailed logging of backup / restore operations

IDrive for WordPress – Windows Restore application makes it easy to restore data from your IDrive for WordPress account to your Windows machine.

  • You can even restore historical data using the Snapshots feature.

System Requirements

  • WordPress 2.8.5 or higher hosted on a Linux / Unix system. WordPress blog hosted on a Windows system is not supported
  • Javascript enabled web browser – IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome
  • Admin access to WordPress dashboard to activate the Plug-in
  • PHP 5.1 or higher

iDrive Installation

What’s better is installing iDrive for WordPress is as easy as 1-2-3!

  1. Login to your WP Admin.
  2. Click on Add Plugin and earch for iDrive and click Install.
  3. Go to iDrive under Settings and complete the extremely short signup process.

It’s FREE for a 2GB backup!

Get iDrive to backup your personal computer too, it’s easy, affordable, and SMART!

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