Nov 04
To all the New Kids on the Blogs - Remember to Backup your Files.
Yesterday my blog was hacked for the second time by Cybr3king just after I had it restored. This time my site was totally defaced that I was greeted with scary picture of a skull instead of my familiar WP theme. Lucky me I did file backups so I shot an email to my hosting company and they restored it immediately. Only my last post was missing.
Here is a simple way of backingup your file in your cpanel account
Go to your cpanel – http://www.yourwebsitename.com/cpanel
- - In the main screen click on Backups
- - Click on the link (Generate/Download a full Backup)
- - “Backup Destination” label will show “Home Directory“
- - Make sure your email that is displayed is up-to-date.
- - Click on “Generate Backup“
If you are on WordPress and do not have cpanel install the WP backup plugin.
- Go to link http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/installation and click on Download Plugin.
- Open the zip file and extract wp-db-backup.php. Using filezilla or other ftp program which you may already have, create a directory in /wp-content/ and upload the file which you have extracted.
- Back to your WordPress site and activate the plugin under the Plugins menu.
- Next click the Manage menu and then click on Backup where you schedule your backups. Note any error messages which may appear, correct it and manage the backups.
Here’s a link on how to backup a blogspot blog => http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-backup-blogger-blog.html
November 5th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
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November 5th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
This is excellent information, I’ve place a link to this post on my site for others to find you.
November 5th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
always back up your database..
November 5th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
If you can figure out who this guy s or ask your hosting company to figure out the IP address range during the time that the hack happened, you can then ask them to block out his IP address visits.
I know how it feels.glad you had a backup, well done!!
Regards,
Seeni
blogmiracle.com
November 5th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Thanks Lynne. Many new bloggers are unaware of the importance of backups.
November 5th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Eddyra - After the case of your disappearing blogposts, I am also extra careful. Good thing that you are great at troubleshooting yourself.
November 5th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Seeni- Thnks buddy. I believe they work in a team.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:31 am
To Seeni,
Yes, I did block all the ip’s coming from the country that did it, but the next time around, they used another country’s ip.
Fatiah
Home directory backup is almost instant for small sites. Remember it does not only backup files and databases. It also backs up your e-mail accounts, FTP accounts, and add-on domains that you configured in cpanel.
Regards
Sherif