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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