Jul 13 2005
Wordpress Backup Week
I am a big fan of letting the experts take care of things like leaving the nightly backups of my site to my web host to do, but it is still a good idea to do your own backups. This gives you extra redundancy in case something really goes wrong, plus a lot of the people using Wordpress probably are with a host that don’t perform regular backups for them.
Hence Wordpress are having a backup week to demonstrate how simple it is to setup your own Wordpress backups and get everyone into the habit, their press release is below with details and who knows I might just have to volunteer to help out. 
Press Release
Backing Up is Not Just for Cars
Your WordPress database contains every post, every comment and every link you have on your blog. If your database gets erased or corrupted, you stand to lose everything you have written. There are many reasons why this could happen and not all are things you can control. But what you can do is backup your data. After all, it is important isn’t it?
WordPress Backup
Week July 23-30 aims to help you become more familiar with the process of backing up and protecting your data.
Step-by-step backup instructions will be available in the online manual,
the WordPress Codex, and
support provided online in the WordPress Support Forum to help you through the process.
Guides will be available to help you backup your WordPress site and database for a variety of systems and server software such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk and vDeck. Consider using this Backup Week as an incentive to backup all your valuable documents and software, too.
These guides will assist you in determining:
- When and how to make backups.
- How to make things right after an unexpected data loss befalls your WordPress database.
Making backups is essential because problems inevitably occur and you need to be in a position to take action when disaster strikes. Spending a few minutes to make an easy, convenient backup of your database will allow you to spend even more time being creative and productive with your website.
For more information or to help volunteer on this WordPress Community
Event, see WordPress Backup Week.