About wp Time Machine
The wp Time Machine plugin creates an archive (as a .zip file or .tar.gz file) of all your WordPress Data & Files which is ‘sent’ to a remote storage provider.
That’s right! Remote storage of …
- Your data
- Your files (and uploads) — everything in wp-content
- Your .htaccess file
- Instructions for a smooth recovery
You provide the remote account; this plugin provides a connection to the offsite facility you choose. Current choices include Dropbox, Amazon’s S3, and FTP accounts.
Don’t have a Dropbox account? Visit this link: http://www.dropbox.com/
Additionally, backups can be ‘sent’ to Amazon’s AWS S3: https://s3.amazonaws.com
If you’re here you probably already get why this is important; and that there might additional use cases like using archives to help migrate a blog. That said, there are some caveats that apply to this plugin. First & foremost: FTP is the only option if your site is running on PHP4. There are also some “gotchas” applicable to PHP5. You’ll need to have the cURL extension installed, read this for more information: http://wptimemachine.com/-/curl-is-required/. You’ll also need t have the system() command available and enabled (though a new release will hopefully eliminate this requirement or help use an alternate command). The plugin provides a list of useful bits of feedback that will help me troubleshoot, so please include that in posts to the forum.
Lastly, it’s entirely possible that while this plugin works for a lot of users; you might have issues, please post them in the forum. I do read it, and while I may not reply to every post I take everything said in to account.