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Well, I didn’t practice what I preached, and I got burned.

I urged you to back up your site periodically. But the last time I backed up this site was in January. I did have the wp-db-backup plugin installed, and it was supposed to email me weekly backups of the database, but for some reason, it was not working, and I never noticed. I think I might have had the wrong email address in there, I’m not sure.
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I learned my lesson when I moved this blog and ended up upgrading WordPress from many versions ago. I resolved to keep my WordPress installations upgraded to the latest version.

So today I upgraded this blog to version 2.7 of WordPress. It was pretty easy. I followed the instructions on the WordPress documentation (codex) about Upgrading Wordpress.

The main steps are these:
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Now that I am getting involved with web hosting, I have been thinking a lot about backups.

Do you back up all your websites? You should!

Your web host might or might not do backups. If they do backups, you don’t know how often they do it. Also, their backups might get lost or be unusable for various reasons. You should not trust your host to do your backups — you should always do your own backups as well.
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