The single biggest issue I have with VaultPress is that I believe they are currently misleading their customers.
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One moment… Are they kidding? Manually download everything to your computer, then upload it all back to your WordPress site? Re-install WordPress itself manually? This isn’t sounding great … and it isn’t.
Each of them basically says the same thing, here’s the Uploads directory instructions, though Plugins, Themes, and Database are basically the same:
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How difficult could it be, their Backup capabilities are stellar! In fact, VaultPress provides instructions for each of the archive files they provide to you. But how do I use what they download to me? How do I actually recover? The answer is found under Support, in the Frequently Asked Questions: The closest thing to a Recovery option is: Here’s your first indication of an issue: Recovery isn’t an option, on any screen. VaultPress does an amazing job of automating your backups. Never fear, I have VaultPress! So, I just blew away my WordPress installation, dropped the database table, and began to recover.Īlways test Recovery before relying on a Backup system! I completely dorked this blog, at a time where I really didn’t have any time to dork a blog up.
I’m not going to tell the story here, but basically, if you have two completely different domain names, WPMU still doesn’t really support them both running on the same instance of WordPress. Since WordPress 3.1 includes the WordPress Multi-User environment, I decided to enable a WordPress Network and have both blogs hosted in my single instance. On March 28th, 2011, I decided to setup a new blog. Recoveryīackups without Recovery are like Compression without Decompression, completely useless. Unfortunately, that line is very misleading. You feel secure that if anything happens, everything you have on your WordPress site will be recoverable. It’s very comforting to see, “Backed up your entire blog”. Unfortunately, their interface only shows 24 at a time, so I have to cycle back through 31 pages of entries to find the original backups I took it’d be nice to get a better pagination system). Since February 25th, VaultPress has made 743 backups of my blog. It’s completely automated and it backs up every time you make changes to your blog. I registered my account, paid my monthly fee ($15), installed the plugin, and thanked VaultPress: Backupsīacking up with VaultPress appears to work wonderfully. It worked! VaultPress let me know my “Golden Ticket” was on the way:
I even Tweeted them to see if I could get my “Golden Ticket” a little earlier: Then I found VaultPress and requested a “Golden Ticket” to the Beta. BackupBuddy only ran if someone accessed the site. AWB only ran when I manually ran it, or else I had to build a cron-job on my Unix host to run it. I had been playing with various WordPress backup solutions, including AWB, BackupBuddy (I purchased it), but wasn’t happy with any of them. Access credentials will be checked within callback.My first VaultPress backup was completed at 7:03pm, Fri, February 25.
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