There was a backup plugin in core at one time but it was yanked. So I’d guess you won’t see backup features in core in the near future.
So, do yourself a favor and install one of the great backup plugins that will automatically send you the backup each night, then you’ll always have a good backup.
Also don’t forget to backup your files.
Review WordPress Backups.
it can not be too much coding-effort to write some lines of code to export the DB and save it into a file in wp-content.
This is actually more complicated than you can believe ;).
Hi Michael,
at this point I have to ask a (from a user perspective) relatively obvious question: if the wordpress automatic upgrade plugin could create database-backups that were sufficient for me as a user, why could their part of the code not be reused in the official wordpress upgrade process? Or be rewritten if there are license problems?
I assume there are extensively discussed software-architecture topics – and I don’t want to get deeper into that. For me it’s o.k. if a backup is not possible for the moment, I will have to use WP-DB-Backup for some time.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Henning
I believe that Matt Mullenweg felt that the backup software, at least at that time, presented security problems.
