Yesterday I mentioned that I was working on a script that would backup my Wordpress database and email it to me. Well, I finished setting it up but ran short on time to post about it.

I came across this while surfing one of my favorite Linux forums and it made absolute sense to me. See, even though I had a backup plugin running in Wordpress itself, this would sort of back that up in the event of one failing to go through.

So, after making the necessary adjustments for it to work on my database (yours may differ depending on your hosting provider), I uploaded the file to a specified folder in my public_html directory and then proceeded to create the cron job to run it.

“Please note that all scripts should be with a .php extension, the file should have 755 permissions” more…